August Sander - Wikipedia
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. [1][2] His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". [3] .
August Sander - MoMA
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century".
August Sander Photography, Bio, Ideas - TheArtStory
August Sander is acclaimed for a life-long undertaking known as People of the Twentieth Century. Though it was realized as one single volume only posthumously (through the efforts of his son) his career-defining mission gave rise to the greatest portrait collection of the 20 th century.
August Sander | Portraiture, Documentary, Weimar Republic
Nov 13, 2024 · August Sander (born November 17, 1876, Herdorf, near Cologne, Germany—died April 20, 1964, Cologne) was a German photographer who attempted to produce a comprehensive photographic document of the German people. The son of a mining carpenter, Sander apprenticed as a miner in 1889.
Five things to know: August Sander - Tate
August Sander’s portraits of marginalised subjects are often evoked as visual shorthand for his inclusive vision of the German nation. This article uses a portrait he made around 1930 showing two circus workers, an ‘Indian’ man and a white woman, to assess how Sander’s work deals with the cognitive and ethical difficulties posed to ...
August Sander - Artnet
August Sander was a German photographer whose work documented the society he lived in. View August Sander’s 1,532 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.
Typologies - PhotoPedagogy
One of the first photographic typological studies was by the German photographer August Sander, whose epic project ' People of the 20th Century ' (40,000 negatives were destroyed during WWII and in a fire) produced volume of portraits entitled 'The Face of Our Time' in 1929.
August Sander’s Life Studies | Magazine - MoMA
August Sander, Mother and Son [Lou Straus-Ernst with son Jimmy]. 1928 The fourth session of The August Sander Project —a five-year exploration of Sander’s *People of the Twentieth Century*—convened on September 13, 2019, at Columbia University.
August Sander 1876–1964 - Tate
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century".
August Sander and the Disquieting Facts of Modern Life - Aperture
Oct 24, 2022 · The emphasis in “Germany / the 1920s / New Objectivity / August Sander”—on the facts—on that somewhat untranslatable word sachlichkeit—indicates something that many of the cultural producers of the era were considering: how to build a new way of living based on what they saw around them. The exhibition suggests that artists ...