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August Sander

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August Sander , 1876-1964, Austrian photographer. During his long life Sander made a remarkable composite portrait of the German people. He began his immense work in the early 1890s, making pictures of young men who wanted mementos to give to their families before they emigrated to the United States. He opened a portrait studio in Linz (1904), but a great percentage of his precise, direct, and perceptive portraits were made in the homes and working environments of his sitters. Using large glass plates, he produced a realistic picture of the daily life and look of a vast cross-section of German... Read more

Sander, Jil
...34, 22529 Hamburg, Germany. Website: . Publication On SANDER: Books Stegemeyer, Anne, Who's Who in Fashion, Third Edition, New York, 1996. Articles Mayer, Margit J., "Soft und Sander," in Deutsch Vogue (Munich), January 1990. Gomez, Edward...Luxurious," in Time, 25 June 1990. Drier, Melissa, "Jil ... Read more

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...was featured in his wife's book Born Free (1960), 20 August 1989. Joy Adamson, 69, naturalist, author of Born Free...helped to found the American Civil Liberties Union, 26 August 1981. James Beard, 81, renowned chef, 23 January 1985...October 1985. Ruby Hurley, 70, civil rights leader, 9 August 1980. ... Read more

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	IN A PHOTO SHOW: AUGUST SANDER'S ALL-SEEING EYE VAST PROJECT SURVEYED GERMANY'S SOCIETY ; NEW YORK - August Sander was the supreme photographer...and Practical Occupation." Sander spent the rest of his life...illustrated as to require no text. Sander never completed it. Only God could have. At his death, Sander left behind some 1,800 portraits...and absorbing exhibition, ... Read more
	THOMAS ZELLER ON AUGUST SANDER'S RHINE LANDSCAPES ; THE GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER August Sander (1876-1964) took this picture of the Rhine River, close to Bonn...Neither a wild river nor a Romantic conduit for river cruises, August Sander's Rhine is a working Rhine.2 The manifold human activities on... Read more
	ART REVIEW; SOUL SEEKER; New prints of old portraits by pioneering photographer August Sander open a tantalizing window into pre-World War II Germany.(SCENE) ; ...legend among his peers, photographer August Sander aimed to document systematically...the past century. A small slice of Sander's ambitious work is on view through...23 images, all freshly printed by Sander's grandson Gerd, the show is but... Read more
	ART: PRIVATE VIEW August Sander to 26 Jan Michael Hoppen Gallery, London SW3 ; Originally a miner, August Sander brought a capacity for hard work to his second career as a photographer...of the German population that Hitler was to deny so forcefully. `August Sander', Michael Hoppen Gallery, 3 Jubilee Place, London SW3 (020-7352... Read more
	August Sander: People of the 20th Century.(Video recording review) ; [VHS/CD/VISUAL] AUGUST SANDER: People of the 20th Century. VHS or...com. Back in the 1920s, photographer August Sander made a radical departure from the...people of all classes and occupations. Sander's work was largely uncelebrated in... Read more
	A nation on display.("August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century; A Photographic Portrait of Germany" )(Brief Article) ; German photographer August Sander never completed the ambitious project...Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century...Evans, Robert Frank, and Diane Arbus. Sander was interested in creating a wide-rangi... Read more
	August Sander: People of the Twentieth Century ; ...the pioneering German photographer, August Sander (1876-1964), are on view at The Metropolitan...photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early...analysis of character and lifestyle, Sander's individual images stand out as... Read more
	art; seeworthy; AUGUST SANDER: PEOPLE OF THE 20TH CENTURY.(SCENE) ; ...sheer ambition, few artists rank with August Sander (1876-1964), the German photographer...celebration of the fatherland. But Sander's real Germans didn't conform to...original negatives by grandson Gerhard Sander, are featured in an unusual new show... Read more
	A Portraitist's Group Photos; August Sander Ordered His World, and Shook It Up, Too ; ...frequent unveilings of his work. August Sander died in 1964, and many of his most...made between the two world wars. Sander, born in Germany in 1876, is best...sampling from the project, which Sander had imagined might have as many as... Read more
	August Wilson: A playwright's legacy: Derrick Sanders Director, 'Joe Turner's Come and Gone' ; Derrick Sanders, artistic director...Broadway production of August Wilson's "Gem of...really connected me to August was reading a speech...Stand,' " recalled Sanders. "In it he talked...poetry. But I think August was best at highlighting...a Wilson actor," Sanders observed: "Just ... Read more

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	The mask behind the face: 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.(Photography)(Critical Essay)
	The faces of Germany.(The World Yesterday)(portrait photographer August Sander)(Biography)
	In Memory.(J. William Sanders, James Marvin Brown)(Brief Article)(Obituary)

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