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August Sander

German photographer (1876-1964)

  • Fame52.6
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia4.2K
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Lived 1876–1964, aged 88Germany
GermanyGermanyArtistsArtist
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  • Era
    1876–1964
    Aged 88
  • Known for
    Avanti - Honningbarna
    2024
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Updated 2026-06-24

August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". Sander's work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the 20th Century. In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic.

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