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GRETE STERN & ELLEN AUERBACH (1904-99 & 1906-2004) Ringl + Pit Fotografie Portfolio. 1929-33; printed 1985. Complete with 12 photographs. Silver prints, the images measuring 5½x4⅛ to 13⅜x8¾ inches (14x10.5 to 34x22.2 cm.), and the reverse, the mounts 19x14¾ inches (48.3x37.5 cm.), each with Stern's or Auerbach's (or both) signatures in pencil on mount verso; each overmatted. Elephant folio-sized brown cloth clamshell box with a typeset label; with the title page plate list, preface by Christine Sander, essay by Ellen Auerbach, and colophon with edition notation 4/35 in ink; contents loose as issued. ONE OF AN EDITION OF 35 COPIES + 15 APs. New York: Sander Gallery Editions, 1985
WITH--Grete Stern: Fotografia en la Argentina 1937-1981. Oblong 4to, photo-pictorial wrappers. SIGNED BY GRETE STERN. Buenos Aires: LA AZOTEA, (1988)
Ringl and Pit were the childhood nicknames of Grete Stern (Ringl) and Ellen Auerbach (Pit). Both studied with Walter Peterhans, a photography instructor at the Bauhaus. Together, they established a photography studio in 1930 in Berlin, but their promising partnership ended in 1933 when they decided to emigrate. Often using mannequins, wigs, and other symbols of femininity, Stern and Auerbach worked on the representation of the "modern woman," and questioned the artifice and masquerade of feminine identity.
Komol Haircoloring Advertisement, Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, 1932 * Glass with Leaf (Still life), Grete Stern, 1931 * Bertold Brecht, Grete Stern, 1933 * Maratti (Synthetic silk made by Maratti) Advertisement, > Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, 1931 * Pit with Veil, Grete Stern, 1931 * Bald Head (Portrait study), Grete Stern, 1931 * Glove (Still life), Ellen Auerbach, 1929 * Petrole Hahn Hair conditioner Advertisement, Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, 1931 * Egg on End (Still life), Grete Stern and Ellen Auerbach, 1930 * Ringl with Glasses, Ellen Auerbach, 1929 * Gueldenring Cigarettes Advertisement, Grete Stern, 1930 * Hat and Gloves (Still life), Ellen Auerbach, 1932
