{"title":"August Sander Books — Photo Museum Ireland","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAugust Sander spent his working life trying to photograph the German people in their entirety. Working with calm determination across three eras - the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany - he cast the same lucid eye on bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers. His sole ambition, in his own words, was to tell the truth about humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePMI holds two titles that together illuminate this project from different angles. The Photofile edition presents an authoritative critical overview of his practice. Persecuted\/Persecutors publishes for the first time the identity photographs Sander made for persecuted Jews from around 1938, alongside wartime portraits that restore people excluded from official records to their rightful place in the story of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePMI is one of only two specialist Irish bookshops carrying his work. Ships across Europe.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePhoto Museum Ireland is Ireland's national centre for contemporary photography, supporting photographers since 1978.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"397\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"august-sander-photofile-by-august-sander","title":"Photofile: August Sander","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAugust Sander (1876–1964) was a documentary photographer whose greatest project lasted his entire working life. His series of portrait studies of the German people spanned three eras – the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany – and every social class, combining to form a fascinating social mirror of the country over a tumultuous period in its history. Working with calm determination, Sander cast the same lucid eye on bankers and boxers, soldiers and circus performers, creating strikingly honest images that fulfil his sole ambition: to tell the truth about humanity.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42396535750819,"sku":"TH-PH-1023","price":13.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/files\/ieieieieieieieieieieie.png?v=1764328822"},{"product_id":"persecuted-persecutors-people-of-the-20th-century-by-august-sander","title":"Persecuted\/Persecutors: People of the 20th Century by August Sander","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRecognized as one of the founding fathers of the documentary style, August Sander is the creator of many iconic twentieth-century photographs. Towards the end of the First World War, while working from his studio in Cologne, Sander began what would become his life’s work: a photographic portrait of German society under the Weimar Republic. He called this endeavor People of the 20th Century. While his first publication was banned from sale in 1936 by the National Socialist government, in around 1938 Sander began taking identity photographs for persecuted Jews. During the Second World War he photographed migrant workers; Sander included these images, as well as some taken by his son Erich from the prison where he would die in 1944, in People of the 20th Century, along with portraits of national socialists made before and during the war. Sander was unable to publish his monumental work during his lifetime, but his descendants champion his vision to this day. These photographs are published together for the first time here, along with contact prints, letters and details about the lives of those photographed. They are portraits of dignified men and women, victims of an ideology taking their rightful place as “People of the 20th Century” in defiance of Nazi efforts to ostracize them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steidl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42396568092835,"sku":"ST-HA-1494","price":60.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/products\/sander.jpg?v=1671633675"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/collections\/ieieieieieieieieieieie.png?v=1779452339","url":"https:\/\/shop.photomuseumireland.ie\/collections\/august-sander.oembed","provider":"Photo Museum Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}