SANDER, August - Das Gesicht der Landschaft. Rhein und Siebengebirge

Background information

His magnum opus, 'People of the 20th Century' is at the center of the reception of the work by August SANDER. However, some of his publications and exhibitions also dealt with his landscape photography. Based on his extensive collection of landscape photographs from the Rhine region and some immediately adjacent areas, the focus is on botanical motifs as well as general views. They illustrate his great closeness to nature and the environment. With his pictures, the photographer tried to describe the character of the respective landscape or region. He even went so far as to speak of a 'physiognomy' of the landscape - by which he primarily meant the interactions between natural conditions on the one hand and the consequences and traces of human activity on the other. He found many of his motifs in the Siebengebirge and the Middle Rhine in particular. They represent a modern aesthetic view of the time in the context of factual documentary photography.

Content

The out-of-print photographic volume 'Das Gesicht er Landschaft. Rhein und Siebengebirge' accompanied an exhibition of black and white photographs by August SANDER, mainly taken from the mid-1920s to the early 1940s. Two informative, very readable essays in the book, 'Views of and into the Siebengebirge' by Elmar Scheuren and 'With a love of detail. August Sander's plant photography' by Barbara Bouillon provide the background to the seventy black and white illustrations that follow.

About the world-famous Cologne photographer August SANDER (1876-1964)

Photo books by and with works by August SANDER