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Young Farmers

c. 1935

August Sander

(German, 1876–1964)
Culture
Germany, 20th century
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 21.5 x 25.5 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Credit Line
James Parmelee Fund 1985.42
Copyright
© Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv Köln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print

Description

In the early 1920s, August Sander began to make unpretentious, sympathetic portraits cataloguing the lifestyles and occupations of modern Germans. The publication of this ambitious photographic effort was never completed, however. An initial volume of 60 plates was banned in the mid-1930s for not coinciding with official Nazi teachings about class and race. Sander then turned to landscape photography. In Young Farmers, he used dress, gesture, and setting to document the attitudes and social position of his subjects.

Young Farmers

c. 1935

August Sander

(German, 1876–1964)
Germany, 20th century

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