About the German photographer, August SANDER  (1876 in Herdorf  - 1964 in Cologne) 

The work of the German photographer August SANDER includes landscape, nature, industrial architecture and urban photography, but he is mainly known for his portraits. With his work 'People of the 20th century' he created an 'epoch-making' photo project. Other major works are 'Antlitz der Zeit' and 'Köln wie es war'. Three of his works were shown at the exhibition 'The Family of Man'. His pictures can be primarily classified as documentary, factual and conceptual photography.

Photo books by, about or with Works by August SANDER

'Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ein Kulturwerk in Lichtbildern, eingeteilt in sieben Gruppen' (2021, 2010, 2002); 'Antlitz der Zeit. Sechzig Aufnahmen deutscher Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts' (2019, 1929); 'Persecuted/Persecutors. People of the 20th Century' (2018); 'Masterpeices / Masterprints' (2018); 'Rheinlandschaften. Photographien 1926–1946' (2014, 1975); 'Köln, wie es war' (2009, 1995, 1988); 'Sehen, Beobachten und Denken. Photographien' (2009); 'Sardinien. Photographien einer Italienreise 1927' (2009); 'Linzer Jahre 1901–1909' (2005); 'Landschaften' (1999); 'August Sander, Karl Blossfeldt, Albert Renger-Patzsch, Bernd und Hilla Becher. Vergleichende Konzeptionen' (1997); 'Die Zerstörung Kölns. Photographien 1945–1946' (1985); 'Menschen ohne Maske' (1976, 1971); 'Deutschenspiegel. Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts' (1962); 'Am Niederrhein', 'Die Mosel', 'Das Siebengebirge', 'Die Saar' (1934 for each); 'Bergisches Land', 'Die Eifel' (1933 for both)


Cloth bound HC, approx. 24 x 28 x 2 cm., o.pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: German, French, English, limited to 500 copies
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This out-of-print photo volume 'Menschen ohne Maske. Photographien 1906 - 1952' by German photographer August SANDER in paperback format is a re-issue of a 1971 publication, released at Swiss Bucher Verlag.
0,00 € * Weight 1 kg
English or German. Based on Helmar LERSKI's series 'Metamorphosis', this compendium, 'Faces. The power of the face', brings togehter portraits from the time of the Weimar Republic. Experiments, feminist role-playing games and political ideologies collide.
45,00 €
'Cologne and its photo books. Cologne in the photo book from 1853 to 2010 'by Werner Schäfke shows the city as a large puzzle. Whether published in-house, on behalf of the city or industry, they document the diversity of this old & young Rhine metropolis.
38,00 € * Weight 2 kg
Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 12,5 x 20,5 x 1 cm., 112 S., 60 S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
9,95 € *
The out-of-print volume on August SANDER shows around 40 b/w photographs that are exemplary for the portrait work created between 1921 and 1930 - around the time of the Weimar Republic: people from Cologne, the Westerwald, the Eifel, Hamburg and Berlin.
18,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
'Der Westerwald im Spiegel der Zeit' gives an insight into August SANDER's work in his home area in around fifty photographs. Here, motifs from his work 'People of the 20th Century' are combined with photos that he had filed under the name 'Bauernarchiv'
19,80 € * Weight 0.4 kg
In German language 'Hinter der Kamera', Juliet Hacking portrays 38 of the most important personalities in the history of photography. By working out contexts, the portraits add to an overview of great innovations, trends and developments in photography.
24,80 € * Weight 1.3 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 28 x 21 cm., o.S., S/W-Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
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With works by EISENSTAEDT, ERFURTH, FINSLER, FLACH, JACOBI, Paul W. JOHN, KRANZ, MANTZ, MUNKACSI, RENGER-PATZSCH, ROH, SALOMON, SANDER, SCHAFGANS, SEIDENSTÜCKER, STANKOWSKI, UMBO & more
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Gebundene Ausgabe, 24 x 36x 3 cm., 200 Seiten, 153 Photographien, vierfarbig reproduziert nach Vintage Prints, und 165 Abb., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
58,00 € *
The catalog volume for the exhibition 'Die Neue Sachlichkeit' at Centre Pompidou shows 32 photographs by August SANDER, surrounded by artists and subjects from painting & sculpture, design & architecture, photography, film & graphics, theater & literature
78,00 € *
Broschierte Ausgabe ohne Schutzumschlag (wie erschienen), 21 x 28 x 2 cm., 223 S., b/w ills., 1.150 gr., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
24,00 € *
The photo book 'Cologne as it was. 408 photographs from 1920 to 1939 'by August SANDER, shows the images for the first time as the photographer created them. The German language volume also contains an introduction to its history and editorial corrections
from 34,00 € Weight 4.5 kg
'Fotografen sehen Köln' contains works by Cologne photographers such as August Sander, Werner Mantz, August Kreyenkamp, Karl Hugo Schmölz, Heinrich Ewertz a.o., which show the historical upheavals and the rapid development of the medium of photography.
55,00 € *
Out-of-print book 'Eine Reise nach Sardinien. Fotografien 1927' brings together a representative selection from the simple collection of 30 black and white photographs by the Cologne photographer and important pioneer of modern photography, August SANDER.
78,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
from the Walther Collection by Okwui Enwezor (ed.) With photo works by Seydou KEITA, Malick SIDIBÉ, J.D. Okhai OJEIKERE, Santu MOFOKENG, August SANDER, Bernd & Hilla BECHER (among others)
68,00 € *
Huge Presentation Box, within one book (24 x 29 cm., 384 pp., 425 color ills.) + ONE OF THREE numb. High-End-Digital-PhotoPrints, authorized by the Rheinischen Bildarchiv (29 x 42 cm.), Ltd. to 100 copies
128,00 € *
HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 23 x 30 x 3 cm., 240 pp., b/w ills., trilingual text: English / German / French
0,00 € * Weight 1.5 kg
With works by Bernd und Hilla BECHER, Andreas GURSKY, Thomas RUFF, August SANDER, Peter KEETMAN, MAN RAY, Robert FRANK, Stephen SHORE, William EGGLESTON and many more
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HC with dust jacket, 14 x 22 x 2 cm., 137 pp., ONLY GERMAN LANGUAGE
18,00 € * Weight 0.4 kg
Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag, 21,5 29 x 3 cm., 200 S., 69 Duoton-S/W-Aufnahmen, deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
39,00 € *
Both the selection of 96 b/w images by August SANDER printed in this VEB publication as well as the texts by Alfred Döblin from 1929 and by Dr. Heinz Frotscher in 1982 illustrate how the work of the world famous photographer was received in the former GDR
48,00 € * Weight 0.5 kg
With photo works by: Ansel ADAMS, ÁLVAREZ BRAVO, BISCHOF, BOURKE-WHITE, BRANDT, BRUNNER, Robert CAPA, CARTIER-BRESSON, FRANK, GRÖBLI, HAAS, HORVAT, KALISCHER, Dorothea LANGE, SANDER, Gotthard SCHUH, William Eugene SMITH TUGGENER, VISHNIAC among others.
0,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 25 x 29 x 2,5 cm., 287 S., duotone S/W-Abb., bilingual: Italienisch / Deutsch
120,00 €
The out-of-print volume 'Das Gesicht er Landschaft. Rhein und Siebengebirge' contains landscape & plant photographs taken by August SANDER from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s. Two German-language essays provide the background to roundabout 70 b/w images
48,00 € * Weight 0.6 kg
'Kiosk. A History of Photojournalism 1839-1973' by Robert LEBECK & Bodo von Dewitz (ICP Infinity Award 2002) leads you in nine chapters through the eras of international photojournalism and offers an overview of the topics of past decades and centuries.
58,00 € * Weight 2 kg
Pappband mit Schutzumschlag, 22 x 28,5 cm. 17 S., 60 S/W-Tafeln,
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One volume reissue 'People of the 20th Century' by August SANDER shows a work consisting of hundreds of individual and group portraits, which - arranged according to various aspects - presents a typology of German society in the 1920s, the Weimar Republic
from 128,00 € Weight 4 kg
'Photographers A-Z' brings together photographers who have made a significant contribution to photographic culture, as well as the most important photographic volumes of the past century. The entries are illustrated with facsimiles from books & magazines.
from 16,00 €
The catalog 'Zeitgenossen' documents the art scene of the 1920s in the Rhineland around the portrait photographer August SANDER as a central figure. He spans the arc between artists of all disciplines as well as the two art metropolises Berlin and Cologne
55,00 € Weight 1.7 kg
HC, 23.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm., 200 pp,, 153 photographs + 165 b/w ills., text language: English
58,00 € *
Gebunden, mit Schutzumschlag, 20,5 x 24,5 x 2,5 cm., 173 S., S/W-Abb., 1.000 gr., deutsch-sprachig - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
68,00 € *
Gebundene Ausgabe mit schutzumschlag, 32 x 26 x 2 cm., 112 S., mit 40 im hochwertigen Skiaton-Verfahren hergestellten Abbilddungen, 20 Ills., deutsch-sprachiger Text - GERMAN TEXT ONLY!
49,00 € *
From the invention of the camera obscura to the birth of digital photography, this history of photography’s greatest advances by the author Florian Heine focuses on individual artists, works, and moments that decisively shaped the evolution of a genre.
9,95 € * Weight 0.8 kg