Moses, Gertrudis de

Photographer born in Germany in 1901 and died in Chile in 1995. She fled from the persecutions of Nazi Germany in 1939. A self-taught photographer, she set up a studio in Santiago, where she took portraits. In 1946, she was one of the founders of the Photo Cine Club of Chile and began exhibiting her work, inspired by documentaries. Starting in the 1960s, she experimented with photomontage and double exposure, delving into what she called "combinations," which allowed her, while never forgetting the human body—nudity playing a central role in her photography—to explore dreams and impulses of the unconscious. She also experimented with different formal games, composing geometries and abstractions, while still producing portraits and landscapes. She is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary photography in Chile and Latin America.