AUGUST SANDER

Persecuted/Persecutors, People of the 20th Century


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August Sander (1876-1964) was the eye behind many of the 20th century’s most iconic photographs. After the First World War, while carrying on an intellectual dialogue with the avant-garde Progressives circle in Cologne, he undertook a photographic portrait of German society during the Weimar Republic. Totaling several hundred pictures, that project, People of the 20th Century, did not appear as a whole until after his death. His descendents are still carrying on that work today.
What do these photos tell us? The Memorial tries to answer that question in an exhibition from 8 March to 15 November 2018. With several series of portraits made under the Third Reich, the Shoah Memorial honors the men and women who were victims of Nazism.
The exhibition features 120 portraits from People of the 20th Century as well as contact prints that have never been seen by the public before.

photographs by August SANDER

From 08/03/2018 to 15/11/2018
MEMORIAL DE LA SHOAH
17 rue Geoffroy l’Asnier
75004 PARIS
France

Opening hours : Tous les jours de 10h à 18h, sauf le samedi. Nocturne jusqu’à 22h le jeudi.
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