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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 August Sander
1906–7 -
August Sander In the Siebengebirge
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August Sander Anna and August Sander in Tier
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August Sander Karl Sander, Cologne
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August Sander Self-portrait
1922
Features
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Tate Etc
Otto Dix and August Sander: In the Eye of the Storm
German artists Otto Dix and August Sander chronicled the rise and fall of the inter-war Weimar Republic, but their work …
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List
Five things to know: August Sander
Explore five top things to know about one of the most significant and influential photographers of the twentieth century
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Art Term
Photobook
The photobook is a book of photographs by a photographer that has an overarching theme or follows a storyline – …
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Tate Papers
August Sander and the Artists: Locating the Subjects of New Objectivity
Dorothy C. Rowe sheds light on the role played by photographer August Sander among the group of artists known as …
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Tate Papers
Face to Face? An Ethical Encounter with Germany’s Dark Strangers in August Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century
August Sander’s portraits of marginalised subjects are often evoked as visual shorthand for his inclusive vision of the German nation. …
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Tate Papers
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 of …
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Tate Papers
August Sander’s Der Bauer and the Pervasiveness of the Peasant Tradition
Examining August Sander’s Der Bauer group of photographs in relation to the historical representation of peasants in German art, Christian …
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Tate Papers
August Sander’s Portraits of Persecuted Jews
Countering the characterisation of August Sander’s work as politically neutral, Rose-Carol Washton Long argues that the ‘The Persecuted’ and ‘Political …
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Tate Etc
Magical, powerful, simple, shocking: Four photographers on Street & Studio
To coincide with Tate Modern's survey exhibition Juergen Teller enjoys the timeless charm of a Cecil Beaton portrait, David Goldblatt …
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Essay
Cruel and tender
What is the place of documentary photography in art? This is the central question raised by Tate's first major exhibition …
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