In the #1910s #August_Sander started to work on an ambitious project of "creating an inventory of the people of the #Weimar Republic", a #photographic cross-section of "all professions, all classes, all social levels", "from the unemployed worker to the industrial magnate", which he named later (in the #1920s) Man in the Twentieth Century. For this reason he is considered the #conceptualist inside the #objectively oriented #new_vision movement, and he became in fact a kind of photographic #sociologist.
Only one book of #Sander's body of #portraits was #published at the time - #1929 - under the title Face of Our Time, before the "repressive climate of the Nazis".
- photo 1: The Man of the Soil, 1910
- photo 2: Young Farmers of Westerwald, 1914
- photo 3: Coal Delivery Man, 1915
- photo 4: The Man and The Machine, 1926
- photo 4: Unemployed Man, 1928
- photo 5: Pastry Master, 1928

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