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August Sander German, 1876-1964 Sander’s monumental project People of the Twentieth Century, which he began in the early 1920s, was a series of portraits that aimed to exhaustively document contemporary German society. The project grew to a total of around 600 photographs, classified into seven archetypal categories: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, The Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City and The Last People. Sander’s detached observational style, and his inclusion of images of society’s outcasts alongside its success stories, reflected his professed aim ‘to see things as they are and not as they should or could be’.		Thomas Ruff August Sander Bernd and Hilla Becher Thomas Struth Fazal Sheikh Michael Schmidt Robert Frank Stephen Shore Walker Evans Nicholas Nixon William Eggleston   Philip-Lorca diCorcia Robert Adams Albert Renger-Patzsch Lee Friedlander Lewis Baltz Paul Graham Garry Winogrand Andreas Gursky Boris Mikhailov Diane Arbus Rineke Dijkstra Martin Parr

A selection, published in 1929 as Face of our Time, was later seized and destroyed by the Nazis, and Sander was driven to abandon portraiture in favour of landscapes. After World War II, he returned to People of the Twentieth Century with renewed vigour.