August Sander — International Center of Photography
Citation
International Center of Photography. “August Sander.” Constituent page in the ICP archive-browse index. Accessed 2026-05-09. https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/august-sander
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Tier-1 institutional archive page for August Sander at ICP. Reference for his biographical anchor (1876–1964, German; “Citizens of the Twentieth Century” / “Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts” project; Cologne studio from 1910). August Sander has three plates in The Family of Man per strict-match grep against data/photographs.csv (2026-05-09): photo-0146 (Section 15 Work A, Germany), photo-0402 (Section 35 Teens, Germany), and photo-0447 (Section 41 Couples, Germany).
Key excerpts / pages
Biographical dates and nationality (rendered cleanly in the right-hand panel of the page, fetched 2026-05-09):
- “1876 - 1964”
- “German”
Biographical paragraph (verbatim from the fetched HTML, 2026-05-09):
- “Born in Herdorf-am-der-Sieg, August Sander received his first camera from an uncle in 1892 and promptly set up a darkroom and taught himself photography. After serving in the German military, he took up photography full-time. He established a photography studio, first in Austria, then in Cologne, where he settled in 1910 and made photographs of local peasants. This activity inspired his life’s work–a comprehensive document of the German people entitled "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts" (Citizens of the Twentieth Century). He worked on the project throughout the next two decades, while also producing photographs of architectural and industrial subjects.”
- “By the early 1930s, Sander was recognized as an authority on photography in Germany and delivered a series of popular radio lectures, "The Nature and Development of Photography."”
- “As Hitler rose to power in the early 1930s, Sander was forced to discontinue "Citizens of the Twentieth Century": his son (who died in prison in 1944) was a member of the Communist party, and this made Nazi officials suspicious of Sander’s work.”
Notes
- Perspective: institutional / archival.
- The ICP page gives year-only resolution (1876 / 1964). The November 17, 1876 / April 20, 1964 day-month tokens, the Herdorf birthplace specificity, and the Cologne place-of-death specificity carry pointer status from src-wikipedia-august-sander-pointer.
- The page does NOT mention The Family of Man (verified by string-search 2026-05-09 against the fetched HTML — 0 occurrences of “Family of Man”). The connection is made via the MoMA Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo) at the plate level.
- Verified against fetched source on 2026-05-09 via
curl -fsSL https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/august-sander(HTTP 200, 46,462 bytes).