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August Sander
Masterpieces
ISBN: 9783829608459
(HB - E)
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When August Sander (1876-1964) opened his photography studio in Cologne in 1910, he commenced taking portraits of his fellow Germans. These images laid the foundation for a project of cyclopedic scope that he would pursue until his death. His photographic typology of the society of his day, arranged by rank, occupation, and social status, ranging from "The Farmer" to "The City" and "The Last People," is today considered a milestone in the history of photography. In 1929 Sander published 60 portraits titled Face of our Time selected from his monumental People of the 20th Century project. Our volume is a compilation of 153 of the best-known and most significant portraits of Sander's unfinished lifework, which was slow in receiving the global recognition it deserves. Sander's "fanaticism of a truth seeker," as Alfred Döblin phrased it in his preface to Face of Our Time, has since served as a model for generations of photographers.
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