“... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.”
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August Sander
August Sander was a German photographer renowned for his profound depiction of social strata. His series 'People of the 20th Century' documented the diversity of German society, from workers to artists, from farmers to nobility. Sander's work had a profound impact on 20th-century photographic art. more
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Source: August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]
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