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[The lord of the manor (Der Herrenbauer)]
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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- negative about 1925; print later
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
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- German
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Included in the portfolio of farming types, this formally dressed, amply proportioned couple represents a much more affluent segment of agrarian society than the modest farmhands who actually worked the land. Translated as the "lord of the manor" in Sander's 1929 publication *Face of the Time*, the caption further set them apart.
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