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[Blind man, congenitally afflicted (Blinder, erblich belastet)]
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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- 1930
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- German
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 92e8f4c7-51ef-420f-b05d-11594fc83bfc
August Sander made this enlarged portrait of a young man from his negative for *Inmates of a Home for the Blind*. He deeply believed that the physiognomy of an individual revealed their character. Although this man's downcast eyes fail to make contact with the camera, the portrait's close-up view implies an almost intimate sense of connection between the subject and viewer. The clarity of Sander's original negative was so superior that this portrait retains fine details such as the man's watery eyes. Sander intended this portrait to be part of his comprehensive survey, "People of the Twentieth Century," which illustrated German archetypes such as tradespeople, farmers, and politicians. In his hierarchy of types, the disabled, ill, and insane were literally referred to as "The Last People."
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