August Sander , 1876-1964, Austrian photographer. During his long life Sander made a remarkable composite portrait of the German people. He began his immense work in the early 1890s, making pictures of young men who wanted mementos to give to their families before they emigrated to the United States. Using large glass plates, he produced a realistic picture of the daily life and look of a vast cross-section of German society that, as a whole, is considered both a sociological and a photographic masterpiece. His subjects included country people, artisans, laborers, technicians, artists, professionals, politicians, aristocrats, and family groups of every sort, the total work comprising an extraordinary human document in which the photographer himself is particularly unobtrusive.

This book has 275 photographs, 4 line drawings

Large hardback with dust jacket, 1973, 314pages.

Good condition, age spots/stains on front end papers, stain/dirt on  dust jacket top and top spine, age spots on some text pages. Inside photo pages are in very good condition