The mask behind the face: focusing primarily on the Weimar period, when August Sander made many of his best works, the author reconsiders the photographer's massive documentation of Germany's population. A traveling retrospective is currently on view at N Posted: Apr 04, 2008 00:30:41
August Sander (1876-1964) was one of the 20th century ... of the Frenchman Eugene Atget. In 1910 Sander moved to Cologne, mixing in the 1920s with ... grotesqne caricatures of George Grosz and of Sander's friend Otto Dix; it has of ten meant ...