Exhibition dates: 7th September 2018 – 27th January 2019 August Sander (German, 1876-1964) Three Generations of the Family 1912 Gelatin silver print © Die Photographische Sammlu…

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‘The portrait is your mirror. It’s you’. – August Sander In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds … Continue reading "The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander"

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Early 20th-century androgyny, rural conservatism and dapper aviators make up pioneering photographer August Sander’s portrait of pre-Weimar Germany

South Africa was built on gold. The price of the metal that once accounted for half the country’s economy soars, dips and dives, its movements based on the same irrational thinking – fear, panic, greed, paranoia and insecurity – that gave white South Africans legal superiority over their black fellow countrymen. You drop men … Continue reading "A Flash In The Dark – Fabulous Photographs Of Taboo Sex And Culture in 1960s South Africa"

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In 2018 the Italian photographer Francesco Neri won the first August Sander Prize for Portrait Photography of the Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, with his portrait study of farmers in his northern Italian homeland. Neri, who studied with Guido Guidi in Ravenna, comes from the analogue tradition. His carefully composed portraits of men,…

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Rhein II, a digitally altered photograph by Andreas Gursky was just sold for $4.3 Million, making it the most expensive photograph ever sold.

In 1905, when the Andean photographer Martín Chambi was 14 years old, he traveled to northwestern Peru with his father, who had a job working in a gold mine there. At the time, there were no indigenous photographers in the country, and images of the Quechua people were mostly captured through the lenses of French and American photographers.

‘The portrait is your mirror. It’s you’. – August Sander In the early 1920s Sander began People of the 20th Century – one of the most ambitious undertakings in the history of photography, the project occupied Sander for some 40 years, from the early 1920s until his death, during which he took portraits of hundreds … Continue reading "The Extraordinary Photos of German Photographer August Sander"