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August Sander

1876 - 1964

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August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book Face of our Time (German: Antlitz der Zeit) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. August Sander is the 25th most popular photographer (down from 24th in 2019), the 1,761st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,679th in 2019) and the 5th most popular German Photographer.

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, August Sander ranks 25 out of 148. Before him are Elliott Erwitt, Gunter Sachs, Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Josef Koudelka, and Richard Avedon. After him are Irving Penn, André Kertész, Carl Van Vechten, Nan Goldin, Guillermo Kahlo, and Wilhelm Brasse.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, August Sander ranks 59. Before him are Anna de Noailles, Alvin Kraenzlein, Princess Maria of Greece and Denmark, Joseph M. Schenck, Fevzi Çakmak, and Paul Masson. After him are Nicola Romeo, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Edvard Eriksen, Hideyo Noguchi, André Tardieu, and Tomáš Baťa. Among people deceased in 1964, August Sander ranks 51. Before him are Cole Porter, J. B. S. Haldane, Amrit Kaur, Werner Kempf, Vladko Maček, and Flannery O'Connor. After him are Francisco Craveiro Lopes, Bechara El Khoury, Patrick Ryan, Andriy Melnyk, Carl Van Vechten, and Mikhail Larionov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, August Sander ranks 1,761 out of 7,253. Before him are Constantin von Tischendorf (1815), Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt (1761), Ferdinand Ries (1784), Eugen Jochum (1902), Christian Friedrich Hebbel (1813), and Hans Burgkmair (1473). After him are Kathrine Switzer (1947), Gottfried John (1942), Robert Hübner (1948), Hermann Paul (1846), Elisabeth of Swabia (1205), and Ludwig Börne (1786).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Germany

Among photographers born in Germany, August Sander ranks 5. Before him are Heinrich Hoffmann (1885), Helmut Newton (1920), Wilhelm von Gloeden (1856), and Gunter Sachs (1932). After him are Guillermo Kahlo (1871), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Andreas Gursky (1955), Gisèle Freund (1908), Grete Stern (1904), Lothar Wolleh (1930), and Karl Blossfeldt (1865).

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