AUGUST SANDLER: PEOPLE OF THE 20th CENTURY
Book Details + Condition: Schirmer/Mosel (Germany). First Edition / First Printing, 2013. Hardcover quarto with dust jacket. 808 pages. Text by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl and Susanne Lange. This is the condensed 2002 seven-volume edition of the artist's complete oeuvre into one large volume, presenting "the essential" People of the 20th Century. A landmark in the history of modern art, the work presents the fullest expression of the German photographer August Sander’s lifelong work: a monumental endeavor to amass an archive of twentieth-century humanity through a cross section of German culture. Sander photographed subjects from all walks of life, capturing bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers, farmers and families, to create a catalog of the German people, arranged by their profession, gender, and social status. First imagined in the 1920s, he pursued the project for more than fifty years during a politically charged and rapidly changing time, fraught by two world wars and the devastating repercussions of Nazism. Sander never finished the seven-volume, forty-nine portfolio magnum opus, continually refining and shaping it to convey an understanding of the world in which he lived. The photographs, remarkable for their unflinching realism and deft analysis of character, provide a powerful social mirror of Germany between the wars and form one of the most influential achievements of the twentieth century.
Firm binding; light shelf wear only; interior is clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes. A bit more in shipping costs due to size and weight of book.
