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August Sander “People of the 20 th Century” ( Group 1: Anita, Karis and Tom). (Google, 2013). ( Google , 2013 ). Content. Background information of August Sander “People of the 20 th century” Is it documentary or portraiture? Examples of past and contemporary documentary.
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August Sander“People of the 20th Century”(Group1:Anita,KarisandTom) (Google,2013) (Google,2013)
Content • BackgroundinformationofAugustSander“Peopleofthe20thcentury” • Isitdocumentaryorportraiture? • Examplesofpastandcontemporarydocumentary
August Sander 1876 - 1964 (Google,2013)
August Sander“People of the 20th Century A collective systematic portrait of German societyduringtheWeimarRepublic,recordingtheGermanpeopleinthe20thcenturybytheirsocialclassesandoccupations.(Sander,2000;Halley,1978)
7 categories: • The farmer • The skilled tradesman • The woman • Classes and professions • The artists • The city • The last people (Sander,2000) (Google,2013) (Google,2013) (Google,2013)
Coal Carrier, Berlin, 1929 (Google,2013)
“A physiognomic image of an age" – August Sander Blind Girls, 1930 (Google,2013) Soldier, 1940 (Google,2013) Widower, 1914 (Google,2013)
Documentary more than simply portraiture • “Asociologywithoutwords”anda“comparativephotography”underlyingtypes.(Halley,1978, p.667,668) • The photographs are representations of generalcategoryofdifferentsocial groups, rather than individual stories.(Halley,1978)
Documentary more than simply portraiture • Sander’sbeliefofnaturalandstrictphotographyasdocument,honestlyandobjectivelyreflectingthetruthandrealityoftheirepochandit’speople.(Halley,1978) • Meticulous sense of observationofdifferentsocialgroups(Halley,1978) • “A truthfuloutlineoftheexistingsocialorder”(Sander,2000, p.8)
LewisHine-Childlabour (Goggle,2013) (Google,2013) (Google,2013) (Google,2013)
Commodification • Marx Dehumanisation • Sander Machinery and humanity in coherence
JacobRiis-“StreetArabsintheareaofMulberryStreet” (Google,2013)
Guy Tillim- Kunhinga portraitAngolan civil war (Google, 2013)
References: Google. Retrieved 4th October, 2013 from the World Wide Web: http://www.google.com/ Halley,A.(1978).AugustSander.The Massachusetts Review,19/4,663-673. Sander, A. (Ed.). (2000). August Sander: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum. Getty Publications.