Source
August Sander
Citation
August Sander. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-09 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sander.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Used here strictly to record day-month tokens (17 November / 20 April), the Herdorf birthplace and Cologne deathplace, and contextual “People of the 20th Century” biographical framing that the Tier-1 ICP and SFMOMA pages do not state at this granularity.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim claims from the article (fetched 2026-05-09; opening sentence and infobox):
- Opening sentence: “August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German [portrait photographer]…”
- Infobox / opening line corroboration: “Sander was born on 17 November 1876, in Herdorf, the son of a carpenter working in the mining industry.”
- Categorical metadata: “1876 births”, “1964 deaths”, “People from Altenkirchen (district)”, “People from the Rhine Province”, “Photographers from Rhineland-Palatinate”, “German portrait photographers”, “20th-century German photographers”.
- External-references row (verbatim): “August Sander (1876–1964)” — Die Photographische Sammlung. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is treated as a pointer source — the 17 November 1876 birth and 20 April 1964 death day-month tokens, and the Herdorf birthplace specificity, are independently confirmed at Tier 3 by Britannica (src-britannica-august-sander) where the November 17 / April 20 tokens align. The two-source agreement promotes these tokens above pointer-only status. - The 1876 / 1964 year-only resolution is independently anchored at Tier 1 by the ICP archive page (src-icp-august-sander-archive) and SFMOMA collection page (src-sfmoma-august-sander); the year-tokens are not in dispute.
- Wikipedia does NOT mention The Family of Man on August Sander’s article (verified 2026-05-09 by string-search; “Family of Man” returns 0 occurrences in the fetched HTML).
- The three-plate count in FoM is independently verified by strict-match grep against
data/photographs.csv(2026-05-09).