Gretta Sarfaty was born in Athens, Greece, and moved with her family to São Paulo, Brazil, in 1954, where she naturalized as Brazilian. Since the 1970s, Gretta Sarfaty has composed different series of photographic montages based on portraits of herself taken during performative photoshoots with Julio Abe Wakahara, a professional photographer she directed. The artist book "Auto-Photos", first edited by Massao Ohno in Brazil, in 1978, has been reissued by Central Galeria in 2021. For this book Gretta selected works from three series: "Auto-Photos", 1975; "Transformations", 1976; and "A Woman's Diary", 1977. The common aspect among them is the principle of tensioning the representations of women, using, manipulating and distorting stereotypes, both through interventions during the printing process and performing different conventional female characters - the ingenuous student, the slut, the sexy, the angry and crazy, the vamp, and the intellectual for instance. She also used photos of her body naked to make "A Woman's Diary", in which she shows a fragmented and deformed naked body. The new version of the book is almost a facsimile, the additions are an essay by Mirtes Marins de Oliveira and the reproduction of an image on the last page, that was not integrated to the first edition because it was considered too controversial at the time in Brazil.