1852–1934 · United States · Photographer
Gertrude Kasebier
Soft-focus Pictorialist portraits of mothers, children and sitters at rest.
The Manger, 1899Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1876–1964 · GERMANY
August Sander
Typological portraits of every class and trade, frontal and calm.
- Born
- 1876
- Died
- 1964
- Country
- Germany
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1929Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit)
- 1911People of the 20th Century
WHY THEY MATTER
Described as the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century; 748 works at the Museum of Modern Art; exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
THE LIFE
Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book, Face of Our Time, appeared in 1929. His lifelong project People of the 20th Century set out to show a cross-section of German society during the Weimar Republic, sitter by sitter. He also photographed landscapes, nature and architecture.
Also born in 1850–1899
1857–1927 · France · Photographer
Eugene Atget
Patient, empty-street records of old Paris before modernisation.
Avenue des Gobelins, 1927Source: Wikipedia
1864–1946 · United States · Photographer
Alfred Stieglitz
From Pictorialism to sharp modernism, with a deep belief in photography as art.
The Steerage, 1907Source: Wikipedia
1874–1940 · United States · Photographer
Lewis Hine
Direct, dignified portraits of working children and labourers.
Young Doffers in the Elk Cotton Mills, 1910Source: Wikipedia
1879–1973 · United States · Photographer
Edward Steichen
Painterly early work, then glossy modern fashion and celebrity portraits.
The Flatiron, 1904Source: Wikipedia
1883–1976 · United States · Photographer
Imogen Cunningham
Sharp-focus studies of plants, bodies and industrial forms.
Magnolia Blossom, 1925Source: Wikipedia