SANDER, August - People of the 20th century

Publishing date 08/2022. You can pre-order now!

Background information

'People of the 20th Century' by German photographer August SANDER is a monumental work, unique in the history of photography both as an idea and as an enterprise, and has long been a classic of photographic literature. In this large-scale, unfinished project, which he conceived in the 1920s and which was to occupy him for the rest of his life, he was concerned with nothing less than creating a typological overall picture of German society of his time - i.e. essentially the Weimar Republic: Hundreds of individual and group portraits, arranged according to professional, social, or familial aspects, were intended to representatively depict the various sectors of society. In their compositional clarity and the impartiality of their author, the portraits have remained a model and inspiration in many artistic fields to this day. 
Parallel to the major exhibition on the 'New Objectivity' at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which celebrates August SANDER as one of its important representatives, and Florian Ebner's Sander project in the same building, the main work by August SANDER is now available again in a new edition of the reconstruction published in 2010.

Content

Superbly printed edition of the massive portrait work 'People of the 20th Century' by August SANDER in one volume. This volume contains magnificent duotone reproductions from the long out-of-print 7-volume large edition (2002) as well as the 2010 reissue. In addition, the complete new edition of this classic of German photographic and cultural history includes a major essay by Susanne lange and by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl.

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

Photo books by and about the work of August SANDER