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From Art Alba Gallery

  1. Mao by Sheng Qi, Image 1.

    Sheng Qi

    Mao, 2004

    C Print

    122 x 76 cm

    US$7,500

  2. Steph III by Mark Eshbaugh, Image 1.

    Mark Eshbaugh

    Steph III, 2003

    C Print

    36 x 28 cm

    US$1,500

  3. La Danse by Marco Piono, Image 1.

    Marco Piono

    La Danse, 1997

    Bronze

    18 x 5 x 5 cm

    US$800

  4. Tears 1955 by Chen S Y, Image 3.

    Chen S Y

    Tears 1955, 1955

    Photograph

    26 x 20 cm

    US$500

  5. Audrey Hepburn by Cecil Beaton, Image 1.

    Cecil Beaton

    Audrey Hepburn, 1954

    Photograph

    25 x 20 cm

    US$3,000

  6. Autumn 1953 by Pun Yet Pore, Image 3.

    Pun Yet Pore

    Autumn 1953, 1953

    Photograph

    21 x 17 cm

    US$500

  7. Bali Market 1949 by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Image 1.

    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Bali Market 1949, 1949

    Photograph

    36 x 28 cm

    US$2,000

  8. New York Interior by Edward Weston, Image 4.

    Edward Weston

    New York Interior, 1941

    Platinum

    35 x 28 cm

    US$25,000

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About the artist

August Sander

German

1876-1964

In the 1920s and 1930s, in his studio and around Cologne, Germany, August Sander (1876 – 1964) photographed every type of person he came across, in an attempt to capture the then-changing and diverse German society as a whole, in a project entitled “People of the 20th Century.” This endeavor is largely considered to be one of the most monumental collective portraits created in photographic history. Sander presented each of his subjects as entirely individual within their respective categories: Farmers, Workers, Women, Artists, and Urban Inhabitants as well as Handicapped people and Death Portraits. Altogether, they present their peculiarities and unrepeatable details as well as how they are representative of a broader ‘type’ of person. Many of these portraits were published in his book Face of Our Time (1929). Sander captured a version of Germany that included many people who the Nazi Party considered to be “undesirable” and didn’t fit the Aryan vision that they sought to maintain. The Nazis suppressed Sander’s project and destroyed the printing block of the book, preventing him from printing additional copies. Sander and his family moved to Kuchhausen in the Westerwald region in 1942, taking with them a large portion of his archive, including many glass negatives from People of the 20th Century. During the war, his Cologne studio was bombed, but the 25,000 to 30,000 glass negatives he left in the cellar survived, only to be destroyed in a fire in 1946. This incident left behind approximately 11,000 negatives and 6,000 prints, which includes many images from People of the 20th Century.
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