August Sander : citizens of the twentieth century : portrait photographs, 1892-1952
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August Sander : citizens of the twentieth century : portrait photographs, 1892-1952
MIT Press, c1986
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August Sander : Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts
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August Sander
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  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
"Originally published under the title 'August Sander: Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts' by Schirmer/Mosel GmbH, Munich, c1980" -- t.p. verso
Bibliography: p. 59-62
Contents of the portfolios (431 plates): p. 63
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A landmark in the history of photography, Citizens of the Twentieth Century completes August Sander's most important and sustained photographic enterprise, an "archive" of twentieth-century man. These emphatically objective photographs from the years of the Kaisers, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, and the early Federal Republic make up an unprecedented document of both the individual and the collective recent history of the Germans. Sander had intended to create a rank-ordered portrait collection of the German people, an ambitious undertaking which remained incomplete at the time of his death. This reconstruction by Ulrich Keller, professor of art history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, in collaboration with Gunther Sander, the photographer's son, has been compiled from Sander's notes and negatives. Keller's introductory essay discusses the development of Sander's photographic aesthetic, his studio practices, his notions of class structure, his technical virtuosity, and his approach to portraiture.
The 431 photographs following Keller's text are presented in 45 portfolios each divided into seven sections on farmers, workers, women, occupations, artists, the big city, and the last people. "Quite apart from the impressiveness of the individual works as visual manifestations of aesthetic attitudes related to Neue Sachlichkeit, the intellectual ambitions expressed in this project have long attracted the interest of critics of modern society. Because the whole project was never assembled during Sander's lifetime, this reconstruction by Ulrich Keller (whose introductory essay is extremely informative and valuable) and Gunther Sander provides an important addition to the history of photography at one of its most important junctures and to the cultural history of Germany during the 1920s"Rosalind Krauss November - 7 x 9 - 272 pp. - 98 illus. 63.50Photography/Art F9712
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