Main entry:

August Sander. English

Title & Author:

August Sander : citizens of the twentieth century : portrait photographs, 1892-1952 / edited by Gunther Sander ; text by Ulrich Keller ; translated by Linda Keller.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [1986]
©1986

Description:

vii, 431 pages : portraits ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-62).
Preface / Ulrich Keller -- 1: Sander and portrait photography -- 2: August Sander: a German biography -- 3: Conceptual and stylistic aspects of the portraits -- 4: Portfolio arrangement -- 5: On the pictures -- 6: Face of the time -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources of figures -- Contents of the portfolios -- Portraits.
Translation of August Sander: Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts from the German into English by Linda Keller.

Summary:

"From the Publisher: 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." -- front flap.

ISBN:

0262192489
9780262192484

Subject:

Sander, August.
Portrait photography.
Photographers Germany Biography.
Portraits (Photographie)
Photographes Allemagne Biographies.
commercial portraiture.
studio portraits.
Photographers
Germany
German portrait photography, 1900-1950 - Collections from individual artists

Form/genre:

Illustrated books (Photographs) Great Britain England London 20th century.
Illustrated books (Photographs) United States Massachusetts Cambridge 20th century.
Biography
photobooks.
Biographies
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Sander, Gunther, 1907- editor.
Keller, Ulrich, 1944- author.
Keller, Linda, translator.
MIT Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 50998
Call No.: ID:89-B9859
Status: Available