Grete Stern

Grete Stern was a German-born Argentinian who studied at the Bauhaus and was partial to photo-montage. The work above recalls Sisyphus; yet unlike Sisyphus, who was condemned to forever roll a boulder up a hill (only to have it roll back down upon arrival), Stern's subject has it harder, for she is before her boulder, not behind it -- pulling it, not pushing it. Not only that, her boulder is square!