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Taking their exile from Europe in the late 1930s as a point of departure, my dissertation examines critical yet often overlooked aspects of the photographic careers of Kati Horna (Budapest, 1912 – Mexico City, 2000) and Grete Stern (Wuppertal, 1908 – Buenos Aires, 1999) in Mexico and Argentina, respectively. Throughout this work, I consider how both photographers exercised a wide range of creative choices within dense markets of print culture in Latin American metropolises. Challenging paradigms of individual authorship, I emphasize Horna and Stern's mobile position within networks of cultural production to gain a deeper understanding of their practices as processes of lived experience that offered them means of sustenance and opportunities for creative expression, oftentimes in interrelated ways. Through the examination of a diverse range of materials, from photographic prints, interviews, and personal correspondence to illustrated periodicals and photobooks, I correlate some of Horna and Stern’s individual concerns with the collective circulation politics of their images. Moving from objects to process, my analysis examines the circumstances of production and circulation of these materials, with close attention to the positions Horna and Stern chose to occupy within networks of cultural production. Throughout my discussion, I underscore the importance of supplementing visual analysis with other tools of critical inquiry to fully grasp the complexities of their experiences as cultural producers and better appreciate their idiosyncratic contributions to Latin American visual culture.