August Sander

Antlitz der Zeit

Susanne Lange

John von Hartz

An unobtrusive portrait photographer, August Sandler became the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. He began his work around the 1890's and photgraphed all classes and types of German people. During 1930's his work fell into disfavour with the Nazis and was banned.

Centre national de la photographie (France)

Le nom d'August Sander (1876-1964) n'est pas seulement lié à l'art du portrait photographique dans ce qu'il a de plus remarquable outre-Rhin. Son oeuvre extensive, qui comprenait de son vivant plus de quarante mille clichés, est également exemplaire pour des qualités telles que l'étude de la réalité, l'authenticité plastique et une pensée photographique conceptuellement très organisée.

J. Paul Getty Museum

Claudia Bohn-Spector

Including an edited transcription of a colloquium on Sander's life and work, this title contains plates selected from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection. Sander's works exemplify the contradictory nature of early 20th century Germany.

Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum

August Sander, 1876-l976

Gabriele Conrath-Scholl

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson

August Sander is considered to be one of the greatest portrait photographers of the early 20th century. His great photographic work will be celebrated by an exhibition of his most important vintage prints opening on September 7, 2009, at the distinguished Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. One half of the images are his famous portraits, the other half are his relatively unknown, but very beautiful Rhineland landscapes and nature photographs from the 1930s. The images will be accompanied by a text by August Sander himself his famous radio speech about photography entitled Sehen, Beobachten und Denken (Seeing, Observing, Thinking). The images in the book will be reproduced from rare vintage prints in the highest possible quality. This collection will be the essential small edition of August Sander s photographs for years to come.

Seeing, Observing and Thinking : Photographs

John Von Hartz

An unobtrusive portrait photographer who knew what he wanted from his subjects at the onset of his career, August Sander is the photographer of the soul and the chronicler of an age. A meticulous workman and driven artist, he photographed the defeated citizenry of Germany in 1918, who needed photo identification cards for the occupying forces. By 1929 he had photographed all classes and types of the German people. Sander came under the influence of modern art and its vocal intellectual practitioners, whom he befriended in Cologne. It was through his discussions with them that he came to understand the importance of his portrait work and was encouraged to continue. He produced the first volume of an extended series he hoped would provide an exhaustive catalog, but by the 1930s his work fell into disfavor by the Nazis and was banned. The photography of August Sander, resounding with clarity and expressiveness, comprises an extraordinary human document. This volume of the Masters of Photography series includes forty-three of his portraits that reveal a vast cross section of German society, from pastry chefs to industrialists, and provide a provocative glance at the Weimar Republic.

National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)

Gerd Sander

"In Photography There are No Unexplained Shadows!" : an Exhibition Organised by the August Sander Archive, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse, Cologne, and Shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sixty portraits of twentieth-century Germans.

August Sander

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