'Tribute to August Sander' by Pavel Schnabel followed by 'August Sander - Men of the 20th century' by Reiner Holzemer
Thursday 24 May 2018 at 7:30 PM
Tribute to August Sander by Pavel Schnabel
Germany, documentary, 21 min, Pavel Schnabel Filmproduktion, 1977 (digitized version 2017). Your French translation broadcast by headset.
© 2017 Pavel Schnabel Filmproduktion, Frankfurt am Main
The German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spent part of his life in the Westerwald region. It was there that he made his famous portraits of local peasants in the twenties and early thirties. Sander’s photographs are now selling for a fortune on the art market. The film begins elsewhere with a sale at Sotheby’s in London. Very neat and elegant. Dark suits, white shirts... cut and return on a country road in the Westerwald. Simple old farmers and their wives search in their drawers to find the prints of their portraits by August Sander when they were young. They all remember the photographer as a good man.
followed by
August Sander – Men of the 20th Century by Reiner Holzemer
Germany, documentary, 44 min, Reiner Holzemer Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, 2002, vostfr
Grand master of photography, August Sander worked until his death to create a portrait of 20th century men in Germany. This documentary looks back at his life and allows us to explore his work, a true panorama of the social and professional classes of Germany, particularly in the interwar period.
