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LL/1983 |  | August Sander
Member of Parliament and First Deputy of the Democratic Party (Johannes Scheerer)
1928
Gelatin silver print
11 5/8 x 8 3/4 (29.6 x 22.3 cm)
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Gift of the artist. ® 2002 Artists Rights Society (ARS), © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, 2011
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LL/2464 |  | August Sander
Police Officer
1925
Gelatin silver print
10.1 x 7
Andrew Smith Gallery
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, 2011
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LL/2491 |  | August Sander
Master Mason
1926-1932
Gelatin silver print
10.1 x 7.4
Andrew Smith Gallery
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, 2011
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LL/2492 |  | August Sander
Village Schoolteacher
1921
Gelatin silver print
10.1 x 7.4
Andrew Smith Gallery
© Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Köln; VG-Bild Kunst, Bonn, 2011
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Contextual notes:
August Sander is known for his monumental work ‘Citizens of the Twentieth Century‘ (‘Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts‘) which consists of face on portraits of all classes of German society during the first half of the nineteenth century. The portraits are highly detailed and show people in their working or everyday clothes sometimes accompanied by the tools or symbols of their trade.
In 1929 60 of his portraits were published in the book 'Face of Our Time' ('Antlitz der Zeit') but the honesty of the portraits conflicted against the propaganda myths of the Aryan super race that the Nazi party was seeking to promote. In 1934 they seized copies of the book and destroyed the photographic plates.
The work of August Sander is now regarded as one of the key projects in photographic portrait history and his style has been widely copied. |
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