The Spiritual Woman

August SanderWW-1947-M045546

1947·Gelatin silver print·11 1/8 × 8 1/8" (28.3 × 20.7 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1947
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 11 1/8 × 8 1/8" (28.3 × 20.7 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: August Sander

Artist

August Sander

Photography

August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". Sander's work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series People of the 20th Century. In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic.

Cologne, Germany

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