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August Sander (German photographer)

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Sander, August
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Date of birth
1876-11-17
Place of birth
Herdorf
Date of death
1964-04-20
Place of death
Köln

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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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August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer.

Last modified: 2020-12-03 (revision #45880)

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