August Sander
Biography :
August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander was born on November 17, 1876 in Herdorf. the son of a carpenter working in the mining industry. He had six siblings. While working at the local Herdorf iron-ore mine, Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer from Siegen who was also working for the mining company. With financial support from his uncle, he bought photographic equipment and set up his own darkroom.
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Photo Analysis :
August Sandler’s’ work is very interesting he uses people in different environments and captures them in the moment creating images that have a true meaning and story behind them, in all of his photos the person he is photographing is always in the centre or just slightly off centred causing them to be the main focus of the images and catching peoples attention to think about what he truly is capturing.
1. The quality of your analysis and interpretation of August Sander’s work is improving, but try and provide more contextual insights into his practice and methods. For example, when analysing key images make use of the image analysis sheet: Technical/ Visual/ Contextual/ Conceptual more explicitly. You should choose 2 things from each category and use that as a structure in your image analysis
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2. Try and make your own set of environmental portraits in response to August Sander.