I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.
August Sander... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.
August SanderBy sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.
August Sander