The first known photograph ever produced was View from the Window at Le Gras, taken by Nicéphore Niépce, in 1826 and depicts a view of the town that his window overlooked. Like Niépce’s photo, the art of photography was and is still often used to capture images of tangible objects or to document real-life occurrences, such as the war photography from the Crimean and Civil Wars. Grete Stern, a German-born Argentinian photographer in the early 1900s, used photography for these same reasons but also represented photographs in ways that had never been done before. Examples of Stern’s more standard and conventional works are the urban photographs she took of the city of Buenos Aires. However what really made her stand out as an artist were her photomontages,
