AUGUST SANDER: “The Social Mosaic Attempted: The Photographs of August Sander” (2004)

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By Clare Hurley, December, 2004 “People of the Twentieth Century”: August Sander’s Photographic Portrait of Germany, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, May 25—September 19, 2004 A selection of 150 photographs from August Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century [Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts] was recently (2004) on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in a traveling exhibition organized by Die Photographische Sammlung/SK …

AUGUST SANDER: “The Social Mosaic Attempted: The Photographs of August Sander” (2004)

AUGUST SANDER: “August Sander – A Profile of the People” (2002)

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By Hans-Michael Koetzle In 1910, August Sander began a systematic attempt to portray and typologize his fellow countrymen. The project, undertaken wholly at his own initiative and expense, found support only among his painter friends in the Rhineland area of Germany. His book Antlitz der Zeit was outlawed and partially destroyed by the Nazis in 1936, but Sander’s ambitious undertaking today ranks among the most outstanding contributions…

AUGUST SANDER: “August Sander – A Profile of the People” (2002)

AUGUST SANDER: “The Mask Behind the Face” (2004)

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Girl in Fairground Caravan, 1926-1932 Focusing primarily on the Weimar period, when August Sander made many of his best works, the author reconsiders the photographer’s massive documentation of Germany’s population. A traveling retrospective is currently on view at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. By Leo Rubinfien, Art in America, June-July, 2004 August Sander (1876-1964) was one of the 20th century’s greatest photogr…

AUGUST SANDER: “The Mask Behind the Face” (2004)

RICHARD AVEDON: “Stylistic Trials and Documentary Tribulations in Richard Avedon’s ‘In the American West’”(1990)

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… of images, just as Curtis created a picture of the Indian in his multi-volume work The North American Indian. Yet Avedon’s work draws on other sources as well, especially the work of the German documentary photographer August Sander and the American photographer Diane Arbus. In the American West is a complicated stew composed of various ingredients. While Avedon certainly addresses Western myths and refers to the artists who visualized the…

RICHARD AVEDON: “Stylistic Trials and Documentary Tribulations in Richard Avedon’s ‘In the American West’”(1990)

 
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