by August Sander · SCHIRMER MOSEL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783888142925
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«Face of Our Time» is August Sander's photographic portrait book, published by Schirmer Mosel in paperback (144 pages, in English).
Originally published in 1929, it brings together sixty portraits of twentieth-century Germans captured by August Sander. The selection shows people of different conditions and trades from a direct, documentary gaze that pursues the essence of each subject. This English edition includes an introduction by Alfred Döblin.
It is part of the Schirmer Visual Library collection, where it is number 11. Translated from German by Michael Robertson; the original title is Antlitz der Zeit. Includes bibliographical references.
For those interested in documentary photography, portraiture and the social history of Germany in the twentieth century.
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.
