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[Blind Men, Congenitally Afflicted] (84.XM.126.110)

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German Photographer · 1876–1964

Artist

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: about 1930
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: German
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Two oddly paired men sit on a bench in a park-like setting: one holds his glasses while the other rests his hand against the edge of the seat. The men bear no resemblance to each other--the young man on the left is fair; his older companion on the right is tanned--but they are united by their common blindness. August Sander made this portrait at a home for the blind in Düren, just west of Cologne. The younger man on the left was apparently of sincere interest to Sander, who made a detailed enlargement of him, entitled *Blind Man, Congenitally Afflicted*.

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