[Farm couple (Bauernpaar)]

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[Farm couple (Bauernpaar)]

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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: 1914
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: German
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Deeply influenced by the community and customs of his youth in the Westerwald, Sander applied the individual traits he observed in this region to a more universal human experience. The stiffness with which this couple present themselves belies a lifelong devotion that Sander associated with the attributes "propriety and harmony."

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