Amongst the highlights of the “Photography” Auction can be counted a number of August Sander’s most important landscape photographs, including his shot of the Rhine river at Boppard from 1938 (lot 27, 8.000 €) as well as another from 1941 where the photographer captures a romantic rear view high over the Rhine ...

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Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to announce our representation of the August Sander family collection. In celebration, the gallery is presenting a retrospective look at Sander’s career from the series “Citizens of the Twentieth Century”.

August Sander is widely considered to be one of the leading photogr...

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Catalogue de l'exposition qui a lieu du 9 septembre au 20 décembre 2009 à la Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson sur le grand photographe allemand.

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On September 23, the Walther Collection will unite the portraiture of two modern photography masters, August Sander and Seydou Ke&ium...

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August Sander (1876–1964) became a photographer of international renown as a result of his portraiture work People of the 20th Century. But during a career that spanned more than 50 years, he also made a continual study of other topics – in the field of landscape and architectural photography.

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It is a great pleasure and honour for us to present such a unique collection of artists that have shaped the development of photography as an art form, says Jens R Jenssen, senior vice president of human resources and leader of the Statoil art programme. And he continues: This exhibition will make a difference.

The exhibition consists of approximately 180 works of photograph...

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“La Bohème”. The Staging of Artists in photography of the 19th and 20th century In his 1851 novel Scènes de la Vie de Bohème, the French author Henri Murger created the image of the artist as an outsider who, in the midst of the middle class era, lived in romantic poverty. Bohemian life, viewed through rose-tinted glasses and elevated to undying popularity...

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„Das Wesen der gesamten Photographie ist dokumentarischer Art“, so schrieb August Sander in einem seiner Vorträge, die er 1931 im Kölner Westdeutschen Rundfunk hielt. Damit formulierte er einen Kernsatz, der für seine Arbeitsauffassung während seiner gesamten Laufbahn maßgeblich blieb.

Berühmt wurde der Photograph durch das Mitte der 192...

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“The essence of all photography is documentary in nature”, observed August Sander in one of the talks that he delivered at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting Institution) in Cologne in 1931. With this he coined a key phrase, which was to shape his view on photography throughout his career.

August Sander gained fame with a photographic work created du...

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« La nature de la photographie dans son ensemble est documentaire », déclarait August Sander au cours de l'une des conférences radiophoniques qu'il tint en 1931 au Westdeutscher Rundfunk (chaîne radiophonique de l'Allemagne de l'Ouest) à Cologne. Cette phrase allait rester au cœur de sa conception du travail durant toute sa carrière.


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