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"tombstone": "Young Farmers, c. 1935. August Sander (German, 1876\u20131964). Gelatin silver print; image: 21.5 x 25.5 cm (8 7/16 x 10 1/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, James Parmelee Fund, 1985.42. \u00a9 Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur - August Sander Archiv K\u00f6ln / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York",
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"title": "Young Farmers",
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"inscription": "Written in pencil on recto: \"Jungbauern\"; in pencil on verso: \"#41\"; \"10/23/74\"",
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"title": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1996-11-24T05:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: \"Year in Review 1985,\" CMA Bulletin, 73 (Feb. 1986), p. 66, no. 112.",
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"description": "CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: \"Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art.\"",
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"description": "G\u00fcnter Sander (the artist's son)",
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"description": "In the early 1920s, August Sander began to make unpretentious, sympathetic portraits cataloguing the lifestyles and occupations of modern Germans. The publication of this ambitious photographic effort was never completed, however. An initial volume of 60 plates was banned in the mid-1930s for not coinciding with official Nazi teachings about class and race. Sander then turned to landscape photography. In Young Farmers, he used dress, gesture, and setting to document the attitudes and social position of his subjects.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 315",
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"biography": "August Sander German, 1876-1964 August Sander (born in Herdorf) became known for his Citizens of the Twentieth Century, an ambitious project to create a photographic document of the German people. Fascinated with photography since his youth, Sander pursued this interest during military service in Trier by serving as an assistant in a photography studio. He then spent two years working in various studios in Magdeburg, Halle, Leipzig, and Berlin, also studying painting at the Dresden Academy of Art. By 1904 Sander was operating his own photography studio in Linz, Austria, producing portraits in a painterly style. A proponent of art photography, he took part in international exhibitions, winning two gold medals in 1904. In late 1909 he moved to Cologne-Lindenthal and began photographing rural farmers in Siegerland and Westerwald. To accommodate his new clientele, he expanded his portrait style to include a simpler, more direct approach. In the 1920s Sander became interested in producing clear, sharp images printed on glossy paper, an approach he called \"exact photography.\" During this period he formulated his plan to create a photographic study of German types, focusing on individuals from all levels of society. He began making portraits of students, citizens of small towns, farmers, industrialists, politicians, artists, merchants, soldiers, and workers. In 1929 60 of his portraits were published in the book Face of Our Time (Antlitz der Zeit). Five years later the Nazis seized the remaining copies and destroyed the plates. Sander continued to make portraits for his grand project throughout the rest of his life, but after 1934 increasingly turned to landscape and nature studies, as well as architectural photography. M.M.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:51:18.276000"
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