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[Farmhand, Leuscheid, Westerwald (Bauernknecht aus Leuscheid, Westerwald)]
Creator
August SanderGerman Photographer · 1876–1964
All works by this person →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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- 1951
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- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Upon relocating to the Westerwald toward the end of World War II, Sander returned to printing from existing negatives and continued to make photographs for his expansive social inventory of Germany. This portrait of a farmhand was taken during that later stage of his career, demonstrating the continuity of his project in both theory and practice.
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