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Article: 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)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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August Sander (1876-1964) was one of the 20th century's greatest photographers. He spent his early career as a commercial portraitist in Linz, Austria, but began the huge group of photographs for which he is best remembered after 1904 or so, when his pictures underwent a change in style. Where he had once flattered the vanity of his subjects with beautifying effects, his new work was cool, remorselessly detailed, analytical and penetrating, a kind of counterpart, sharply Germanic in tone, to the expressive realism of the Frenchman Eugene Atget. In 1910 Sander moved to Cologne, mixing in the 1920s with the painters known as the Cologne Progressives. His output there ...
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Article: German photography show is concise, clear-eyed, and clinical
The Boston Globe;
October 7, 2007 ;
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... ... photographic school known as the "Neue Sachlichkeit," or New Objectivity. Its ... Photographers like August Sander, the godfather of the New ... Jacobi was second only to Sander among Weimar portraitists ... portraits, which flank four Sander portraits. It's an inspired ...
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