August Sander

„Das Wesen der gesamten Photographie ist dokumentarischer Art,“

... said August Sander in one of the six radio talks which he gave on Westdeutscher Rundfunk in 1931, thus giving expression to his personal view of his work.
August Sander, who is among the most important photographers in the history of the medium, is regarded as the forerunner, so to speak, of what was then a new trend in photography, today seen in the context of "Neue Sachlichkeit". Born in Herdorf in the Siegerland in 1876, he achieved fame through his work "People of the 20th Century", which he conceived in the mid 1920s. It consists of folders of several hundred portraits of people from different social classes and occupations in accordance with a concept he worked out over many years.

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