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Available: March 2013<br />
ISBN: 9783829606448<br />
Price: £90.00<br />
Format: Hardback in slipcase<br />
Pages: 808<br />
Illustrations: 619 duotone plates<br />
Size: 290 x 230 mm<br />
Category: Photography<br />
Rights: Worldwide<br />
This title is distributed in the UK by KNO<br />
Schirmer/Mosel<br />
August Sander: People of<br />
the 20th Century<br />
SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne<br />
& Gerd Sander<br />
With People of the 20th Century, August Sander created<br />
a monumental work, which both as an idea and an<br />
undertaking is unique in the history of photography and a<br />
classic of photographic literature. Sander conceived this<br />
large-scale project, which he ultimately never completed,<br />
in the 1920s. He was to spend the rest of his life working<br />
on it, his objective nothing less than a complete typological<br />
portrait of contemporary society. Hundreds of individual<br />
portraits classified according to professional, social or<br />
family criteria were intended to provide a representative<br />
picture of the various social groups. He envisaged seven<br />
groups for this “picture of the times”, as he referred to<br />
it: “The Farmer”, “The Skilled Tradesman”, “The Woman”,<br />
“Classes and Professions”, “The <strong>Art</strong>ists”, “The City” and—<br />
on the theme of age, illness and death—“The Last People”.<br />
JOHN RULE Spring 2013<br />
Photography<br />
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