August Sander

A German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century."

His work includes landscape, nature, architecture, and street photography, but he is best known for his portraits, as exemplified by his series citizens of the 20th Century.

In this series, he aims to show a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic. The series is divided into seven sections:
The Farmer

The Skilled Tradesman

Woman

 Classes and Professions

The Artists
 
The City

The Last People

Sanders was important because he documented real life in Germany, he contributions can be looked back on to see how far we have come from this time. By the time of his death he had over 40,000 images in his collection and each image has its own story to tell.