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August Sander Quotes

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

August Sander
Looks, Made, Persons
"August Sander".

Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the principal which provided my starting point, once I had said to myself that if we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times in which those subjects live.

August Sander
Photography, Mirrors, Portraits

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.

August Sander
Inspirational, Photography, Shadow

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander
Photography, Earth, Path

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

August Sander
Photography, Honesty, People
August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”

Nothing seemed to me more appropriate than to project an image of our time with absolute fidelity to nature by means of photography.

August Sander
Photography, Mean, Fidelity
August Sander (1980). “August Sander: photographs of an epoch, 1904-1959 : man of the twentieth century, Rhineland landscapes, nature studies, architectural and industrial photographs, images of Sardinia : [exhibition]”

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

August Sander
Sight, Years, Cameras

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of a second of that person's life-time. That's a very meager or small extract from a life.

August Sander
Movement, Moments, Mortification

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

August Sander
Hate, People, Age
August Sander (1996). “August Sander: "In photography there are no unexplained shadows!" : an exhibition organised by the August Sander Archive, Kulturstiftung Stadtsparkasse, Cologne, and shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London”, Natl Portrait Gallery Pubns

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

August Sander
Honesty, People, Speak
August Sander (1976). “August Sander, 1876-l976”

Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

August Sander
Photography, Sweet, People

Photography has no dark sides!

August Sander
Photography, Dark, Sides

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