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August Sander: Seeing, Observing, Thinking
August Sander is considered to be one of the greatest portrait photographers of the early 20th century. His great photographic work will be celebrated by an exhibition of his most important vintage prints opening on September 7, 2009, at the distinguished Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. One half of the images are his famous portraits, the other half are his relatively unknown, but very beautiful Rhineland landscapes and nature photographs from the 1930s. The images will be accompanied by a text by August Sander himself his famous radio speech about photography entitled Sehen, Beobachten und Denken (Seeing, Observing, Thinking). The images in the book will be reproduced from rare vintage prints in the highest possible quality. This collection will be the essential small edition of August Sander s photographs for years to come.
- GenresPhotography
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2009
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March 7, 2017
A beautiful small monograph of Sander's photographs, beautifully reproduced with two significant essays and an introduction. The first essay is a biographical overview, and the second a radio lecture by Sander himself.
What sets this book apart from most that I've read so far is that it attempts to provide a broader context for Sanders work, including his landscapes and plant photographs. Across all these is the attempt to not just create aesthetic objects, but rather a social 'map' of sorts to the relationships of the entire human experience. Sander puts it best:
"If we broaden our field of vision, we can travel this line of reasoning to arrive at something akin to the observatories' overview of space, arriving at a momentary portrait of earth's inhabitants that would be of profound significance in recognizing the development of all humanity."
What sets this book apart from most that I've read so far is that it attempts to provide a broader context for Sanders work, including his landscapes and plant photographs. Across all these is the attempt to not just create aesthetic objects, but rather a social 'map' of sorts to the relationships of the entire human experience. Sander puts it best:
"If we broaden our field of vision, we can travel this line of reasoning to arrive at something akin to the observatories' overview of space, arriving at a momentary portrait of earth's inhabitants that would be of profound significance in recognizing the development of all humanity."
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