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Monday, January 27, 2014

20th Century Camera Chronicles


Soldier (1940). Image Source: Art Agenda.

This past week, the BBC World News ran a series on the history of German art, including the photographer August Sander (1876-1964), who chronicled the state of his society before the First World War through the post World War II period.  At this time, the camera was cutting edge technology and Sander aimed to use it to capture his surroundings at that moment. His first collection from 1929 was entitled Face of Our Time. A later series, also from the Weimar period, was entitled People of the 20th Century. Through the thirty-year height of his career, roughly 1910 to 1940, his work shows a huge transformation of German society. By 1945, he had taken over 40,000 photographs of German people.

Sander is considered to be "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century." To honour his vision and accomplishments, there is a crater named after him on the planet Mercury.

The Mother in Joy and Grief (1911). Image Source: MoMA.

The Earthbound Farmer (1910). Image Source: MoMA.

Mother and Daughter (1912). Image Source: MoMA.

Young Farmers, Westerwald (1914). Image Source: Anthony Luke's Photoblog.

World War I Veteran with Homemade Wheelchair. Image Source: ipernity.

Village Schoolteacher (1921). Image Source: Only Old Photography.















The Architect Hans Heinz Luttgen and his Wife Dora (1926) © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Cologne; DACS, London, 2013. Image Source: Tate Gallery.





Circus Artists (1926-1932). Image Source: Art Agenda.

Circus Workers (1926-1932) © Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv, Cologne; DACS, London, 2013. Image Source: Tate Gallery. 

Brick Layer (1928). Image Source: Anthony Luke's Photoblog.

Old Man. Image Source: Anthony Luke's Photoblog.

The Dadaist Raoul Hausmann [with Hedwig Mankiewitz and Vera Broido] (1929). Image Source: Art Agenda.

Boxers (1929). Image Source: Anthony Luke's Photoblog.

Pastry Chef. Image Source: Anthony Luke's Photoblog. 

Forester's Child, Westerwald (1931). Image Source: Art Agenda.







 


 



Photos which appear to be mainly from the 1930s. Images Source: Anthony Luke's Photoblog.
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