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Item Number: 128499
Title: AUGUST SANDER: Objective Romantic
Author: Steeves, George
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781894518697
Description: Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 2013. 26cm., pbk., 48pp., 17 b&wi llus. Summary: Considered one of the great 20th century photographers, August Sander’s career spanned the pre-World War I, Weimar and National Socialist periods. Sander’s grand project was to compile a collective portrait of the German people and he set about this task by photographing persons from all walks of life, according to his own idiosyncratic and constantly changing categories of social “types.” While his portraits record the social stratifications of the era, his perceptive, dignified treatment of each sitter overrides the prevailing distinctions between classes and races. George Steeves traces Sander’s career chronologically, showing how the photographer’s personality won the trust of his sitters and protected him from Nazi persecution. It concludes with a discussion of the posthumous editions of Sander’s projected People of the 20th Century (more than 600 portraits), the book he had always dreamed of but was unable to realize. Steeves’s long experience as a portrait photographer informs the sharp insights provided in his interpretation of specific photographs such as A Middle-Class Family, Cologne, 1923. In the manner of Eugenia Parry, Steeves’s entirely fictional account of Sander’s portrait session with General Stieff reveals an uncanny empathy with Sander’s professional methods. Contains an extensive bibliography.
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