August Sander
1876–1964
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© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Cologne; DACS, London, 2018.
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Biography
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's 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."
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August Sander Young Farmers
1914, printed 1996
August Sander Painter’s Wife [Helene Abelen]
c.1926, printed 1994
August Sander Pastrycook
1928, printed 1999
August Sander Bricklayer
1928, printed 1990
August Sander The Man of the Soil
1910, printed 1990
August Sander Widower
1914, printed 1990
August Sander Studien - Der Mensch [Grandmother and Child]
c.1919, printed 1990
August Sander Blacksmiths
1926, printed 1990
Artist as subject
August Sander Photographer [August Sander]
1925, printed 1990
August Sander August Sander
1906, printed 1990
Gunther Sander August Sander
1956, printed 1990
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August Sander and the Artists: Locating the Subjects of New Objectivity
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Face to Face? An Ethical Encounter with Germany’s Dark Strangers in August Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century
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Face-Off in Weimar Culture: The Physiognomic Paradigm, Competing Portrait Anthologies, and August Sander’s Face of Our Time
August Sander’s photobook Face of Our Time is discussed in relation to interest in physiognomy in Weimar Germany. Much ...
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August Sander’s Der Bauer and the Pervasiveness of the Peasant Tradition
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August Sander’s Portraits of Persecuted Jews
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