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A landmark in the history of modern art, People of the 20th Century
presents the fullest expression of the German photographer August
Sander's lifelong work: a monumental endeavor to amass an archive
of twentieth-century humanity through a cross section of German
culture. Sander photographed subjects from all walks of life,
capturing bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers,
farmers and families, to create a catalog of the German people,
arranged by their profession, gender, and social status. First
imagined in the 1920s, he pursued the project for more than fifty
years during a politically charged and rapidly changing time,
fraught by two world wars and the devastating repercussions of
Nazism. Sander never finished the seven-volume, forty-nine
portfolio magnum opus, continually refining and shaping it to
convey an understanding of the world in which he lived. The
photographs, remarkable for their unflinching realism and deft
analysis of character, provide a powerful social mirror of Germany
between the wars and form one of the most influential achievements
of the twentieth century. Now made available again, People of the
20th Century brings together the exquisite reproductions and
principal texts of the long out-of-print, seven-volume edition, as
well as the main scholarship from the accompanying study edition.
This all-in-one edition, with 619 photographs, offers the most
comprehensive iteration of Sander's still-essential vision.
In 1975, German readers were introduced to the Rheinlandschaften, a
collection of stunning images of the Rhineland captured in the
first half of the twentieth century by photographer August Sander
(1876 1964). This fresh edition, now in English, brings Sander's
work to a new audience and into our own time. These photographs
showcase a variety of scenes, from a sunrise over Cologne to the
slopes of the Rhine valley. The Rhine River flows through many of
these pictures, its dynamic curves and lively current leading the
eye through an intriguing mix of natural and urban landscapes. A
new essay by art historian Wolfgang Kemp provides context for
Sander's work while introducing his contemporaries, including the
writer Hans Ludwig Mathar and the painter Franz M. Jansen. Also
explored are the ties between Sander's landscapes and his portrait
photography, which is celebrated worldwide. Crucially, Kemp
highlights the need to consider the Rhineland's unique political
situation in the 1920s and 1930s for any discussion of Sander's
artistic approach. Shining welcome light on the full range of
Sander's practice, this book offers a glorious journey through the
landscapes that most affected him.
One of the legendary classics among German photography books,
August Sander's Face of Our Time, is now available again. Compiled
by August Sander himself, the book was first published in 1929,
with a foreword by German writer Alfred D????blin. On its first
publication, it was advertised as follows: "The sixty shots of
twentieth-century Germans which the author includes in his Face of
Our Time represent only a small selection drawn from August
Sander's major work, which he began in 1910 and which he has spent
twenty years producing and adding fresh nuances to. The author has
not approached this immense self-imposed task from an academic
standpoint, nor with scientific aids, and has received advice
neither from racial theorists nor from social researchers. He has
approached his task as a photographer from his own immediate
observations of human nature and human appearances, of the human
environment, and with an infallible instinct for what is genuine
and essential.
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