The Genius of Photography
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November 9, 2007, 9:02 pm
Filed under: Arts, life, photography | Tags: august sander, BBC, BBC4, Germanic, germany, history of photography, portraits, Portraiture, war, war photography, World War 2, WWII
Filed under: Arts, life, photography | Tags: august sander, BBC, BBC4, Germanic, germany, history of photography, portraits, Portraiture, war, war photography, World War 2, WWII
BBC4 is running an unbelievably good series on the history of photography called “the Genius of Photography”.
It is unmissable.
And this week one of the featured photographers was new to me (I’m ashamed to say)
Nevertheless he is wonderful and I’d like to share his work with you.
A German called August Sander who shot some of the most stunning portraits of the inter-war years.
Here are just a few.
This man is focussed.
Ditto.
I love the humour in this shot.
I believe this is the seminal Sander shot and I can see why…
And so is this…
I found this and love it…
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Thanks for the heads up!
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Pingback by » The Genius of Photography November 10, 2007 @ 2:25 pmit’s been an excellent series
particularly enjoyed the rodchenko (?…can’t be arsed checking the spelling) stuff from stalinist russia
and the sander shots are legendary
Comment by kennethfowler November 10, 2007 @ 8:38 pmFebruary 2003 New Yorker magazine did an article on Sander… http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/02/10/030210crsk_skyline1
Comment by debbee55 May 26, 2009 @ 12:05 amDiese Zeit auf kölnisch
Mit August Sander
Comment by Marlies June 26, 2010 @ 5:25 pmhintereinander
erleb ich ein Bilderbuch
das seinesgleichen sucht
ob Einzel- oder Gruppenportrait
ich mir immer wider gerne an sehe
hier kann man sagen
Bilder sprechen Bände
genauso wie seine Hände
ein Dokument
das doch hoffentlich keiner mehr verbrennt
ein Mahnmal das nur wenig Freude zeigt
aus dieser Zeit
nach dem Motto: “Was du liebst, bringt dich auch zum weinen” ( Tobias Rehberger )