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The People's Photographer August Sander, unique chronicler of interwar society August Sander (1876-1964) is regarded as one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 20th century. Though he also captured striking landscape, nature, architecture, and street scene compositions, it is his ability to evoke the essence of sitters across social strata that secure his place as a unique chronicler of interwar Germany and the emerging social kaleidoscope of 20th-century life. This introduction to Sander's compelling body of work spans the full thematic range of his oeuvre, but with a focus on the portraiture for which he is best remembered. Key images from Sander's magnum opus, ""People of the 20th Century"" show sitters from seven socio-economic categories: The Farmer, The Skilled Tradesman, Woman, Classes and Professions, The Artists, The City, and The Last People (covering the infirm, vagrants, and homeless war veterans). Unparalleled in scope and ambition, these staggering portraits are a unique document of the Weimar Republic and testimony to Sander's commitment ""to tell the truth about our age and its people."" Text in English, French, and German

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One in a handsome set of monographs of major 20th-century photographers, with parallel texts in English, German, and French, this hefty volume on Sander illustrates a fascinating selection of images from the archives of one of Germany's most renowned and influential photographic practitioners. Famous primarily for his systematic portrayal of individuals from various professions and social classes, Sander exchewed the highly re-touched pictorial conventions of the time to forge a modern, clear and essentially photographic approach to recording people. Judges, soldiers, industrialists, farmers, chefs and painters - all were given the same treatment. Photographing them in their typical surroundings, he produced a unique and poignant documentation of a wide section of German society in the 1920s and 30s. Also included here are unfamiliar images that extend his approach of typological classification to other subject matter, including architecture, landscape and botany. Sander was a remarkable man whose work still continues to exert a profound influence on many areas of photographic practice today. (Kirkus UK)

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