Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] OT? August Sander
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:31:44 -0800
References: <000001c2d854$6a261b90$6401a8c0@YOURF68DMBR429>

Oliver Bryk wrote:
> 
> Yesterday I visited the large August Sander exhibit at SFMOMA. I found his
> style fascinating, with the subjects firmly posed and looking directly into
> the camera in the majority of portraits; totally different from the kind of
> Leica portraiture characteristic of Eisenstaedt, as an example. The
> subjects' clothing and environment accurately convey a sense of their
> occupation (which equals social status in Sanders's plan of work). The
> images span a period from roughly 1900 to 1960. Although the earlier prints,
> i.e., to about 1930, have the limited scale of tonalities that is typical of
> the papers of that time, this in no way detracts from the force of the
> images, many of which would fit perfectly into W. G. Sebald's novels.
> Oliver Bryk
> 

HE is at the upper end of my top ten. I have a big photo book of his
work. I don't have many of those.



Mark Rabiner
Portland, Oregon USA
Photography

Website: http://www.rabinergroup.com
Email: mark@rabinergroup.com
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