“Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.”
Quote by August Sander
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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