August Sander: A Universal Œuvre

The Centre Pompidou exhibition, in Paris, devoted to the innovative New Objectivity movement of the 1920s, showcases August Sander’s work, distributed among seven thematic groups, just the way the photographer had originally intended.

Having completed his primary education, August Sander, aged 14, joined his father at the coal mine in their hometown of Herdorf in Rhineland-Palatinate. He might have spent the rest of his life working as a miner if he had not encountered Heinrich Sm...

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