August Sander: People Of The 20th Century by August Sander & Cologne Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur & Gabriele Conrath-Scholl & …

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A landmark in the history of modern art, People of the 20th Century presents the fullest expression of the German photographer August Sander?s lifelong work: a monumental endeavour to amass an archive of twentieth-century humanity through a cross section of German culture.

Sander photographed subjects from all walks of life, capturing bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers, farmers and families, to create a catalogue of the German people, arranged by their profession, gender, and social status. First imagined in the 1920s, he pursued the project for more than fifty years during a politically charged and rapidly changing time, fraught by two world wars and the devastating repercussions of Nazism. Sander never finished the seven-volume, forty-nine portfolio magnum opus, continually refining and shaping it to convey an understanding of the world in which he lived.

ISBN: 9781597115414
Author(s): August Sander & Cologne Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur & Gabriele Conrath-Scholl & Susanne Lange