[Protestant priest (Evangelischer Geistlicher)]

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[Protestant priest (Evangelischer Geistlicher)]

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German Photographer · 1876–1964

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During military service, August Sander was an assistant in a photographic studio in Trier; he then spent the following two years working in various studios elsewhere. By 1904 he had opened his own studio in Linz, Austria, where he met with success. He moved to a suburb of Cologne in 1909 and soon began to photograph the rural farmers nearby. Around three years later Sander abandoned his urban stud

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Date: 1928
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: German
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Included in the portfolio devoted to educators, this clergyman demonstrates some of the religious values prescribed by the modern German school system. Cloaked in formal garments, he echoes the rigidity of his young students, who stand obediently in crisp uniforms.

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