With People of the 20th Century, August Sander created a monumental work that is unique in the history of photography and a classic of photographic literature. Sander conceived this large-scale project, which he ultimately never completed, in the 1920s. He was to spend the rest of his life working on it, his objective nothing less than a complete typological portrait of contemporary society. Hundreds of portraits classified according to professional, social or family criteria were to provide a representative picture of the various social groups. He envisaged seven groups labeled: "The Farmer", "The Skilled Tradesman", "The Woman", "Classes and Professions", "The Artists", "The City" and--on the theme of age, illness and death--"The Last People". We have now condensed out 2002 seven-volume edition of the artist's complete oeuvre into one large volume presenting "the essential" People of the 20th Century. 和20世纪的人们一起,奥古斯特 · 桑德创造了摄影史上独一无二的不朽作品,也是摄影文学的经典之作。Sander 构思了这个大规模的项目,但他最终没有完成,在20世纪20年代。他的余生都将致力于此,他的目标就是完整地描绘当代社会。根据专业、社会或家庭标准分类的数百幅肖像提供了各种社会群体的代表性图片。他设想了7个群体,分别是: “农民”、“技术商人”、“妇女”、“阶级和职业”、“艺术家”、“城市” ,以及——关于年龄、疾病和死亡的主题——“最后的人”。我们现在将2002年七卷本的艺术家全部作品浓缩成一本大册子,呈现20世纪的“精英”人物。
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