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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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