August Sander
(1876-1964)
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His 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". Sander's work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the 20th Century. In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic.
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Typological photographic study documenting German societal archetypes through seven thematic groups, spanning decades and social strata.
Books
August Sander: People of the 20th Century
(Schirmer/Mosel, 2013)
August Sander: Masterpieces
(Prestel, 2019)
August Sander
(National Portrait Gallery, 1998)
August Sander
(Thames & Hudson, 2019)
August Sander: Photographer Extraordinary
(Thames & Hudson, 1973)
August Sander: Seeing, Observing, Thinking
(Schirmer/Mosel, 2009)
August Sander
(Aperture, 2005)
August Sander: Face of Our Time
(Schirmer/Mosel, 2008)
August Sander: People of the 20th Century
In Focus: August Sander. Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
(J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000)
August Sander: Objective Romantic
(ABC Art Books Canada, 2013)