New York, NY: Schirmer (2013)

First Edition. Hardback.

Fine in dust jacket.

With People of the 20th Century, August Sander created a monumental work that is unique in the history of photography and a classic of photographic literature.

Sander conceived this large-scale project, which he ultimately never completed, in the 1920s. He was to spend the rest of his life working on it, his objective nothing less than a complete typological portrait of contemporary society. Hundreds of portraits classified according to professional, social or family criteria were to provide a representative picture of the various social groups. He envisaged seven groups labeled: "The Farmer", "The Skilled Tradesman", "The Woman", "Classes and Professions", "The Artists", "The City" and--on the theme of age, illness and death--"The Last People".

We have now condensed out 2002 seven-volume edition of the artist's complete oeuvre into one large volume presenting "the essential" People of the 20th Century.

August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer.