August Sander
(17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964)
German portrait and documentary photographer.
Photos are accompanied by text. The captions are definitive of the photos which might otherwise be seen as enigmatic. Sander wanted to make a photographic record of the German people, thus the personal details of each subject were a necessity. The formal way the photographs have been taken is also a result of their purpose. By presenting each person in the most straightforward manner one is not influenced by anything other that the subject themselves standing before you, nameless, but defined by their profession or otherwise.
Policeman, 1926
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