The young man who fell in love with the camera

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Passed away in at the age of  due to a stroke. The Legacy of August Sander In many ways Sander was a kind of German Eugène Atget . The parallels between both photographers are numerous. Both used somewhat oldfashioned cameras more so in Atgets case with large negatives and long shutter times. If Atget preserved Old Paris on his plates  the German did it from Cologne before the war . Atget tried to create referential documents of spaces and things Sander obtained it from expressions roles and altogether from the Germanic archetypes. Click on the infographic to enlarge. sanderatgetx Sanders work offers a complex system of social cultural and historical signs. If JacquesHenri Lartigue captured the carefree mood of prewar French high society Sander achieved a melting pot of German virtues poured not only into the humble mopup the bomb victim a couple of dwarfs toppedup bourgeois intellectual women carefree artists or hard workers.

Sander himself is the crucible of the German ethos of which he himself was the epitome with his characteristic diligence armored toughness in counterpoint to a docile and affable temperament. august in a mine that humble assistant would become one of the key photographers in the history of the medium and inspirer of some of the greatest talents of his century photo background removing such as Diane Arbus  Irving Penn Richard Avedon or Bernd  Hilla Becher. Sander was a peculiar mixture in that it is not known if he embodied the spirit of his time  or if the spirit of his time was made up of men like him. August intended to create a catalog of the types in the German people a goal that was not easy to achieve.



But what he did manage to do was portray the Zeitgeist  the spirit of his time. And in this sense Sander launches a challenge to all the photographers who were to succeed him How can we manage to synthesize the spirit of the time that each one of us has had to live That was what August Sander managed to capture with immaculate precision in negatives of  x  centimeters. oscarcoloradonates Óscar Colorado Nates is a critic analyst and promoter of photography. He holds the Chair of Advanced Photography at the Universidad Panamericana Mexico City. He is the author of the books Decisive Ideas  Photographic Reflections nd Edition Photography . And after Postphotography what Instagram the eye of the world Social documentary photography Contemporary Artistic Photography The Best Photographer in the World.