"Tribute to August Sander" by Pavel Schnabel followed by "August Sander - Men of the 20th century" by Reiner Holzemer
Thursday, May 24, 2018 at 7:30 p.m.
Tribute to August Sander by Pavel Schnabel
Germany, documentary, 21 min, Pavel Schnabel Filmproduktion, 1977 (digitized version 2017). The French translation was broadcast via headphones.
© 2017 Pavel Schnabel Filmproduktion, Frankfurt am Main
The German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) spent part of his life in the Westerwald. This is where he made his famous portraits of local peasants in the twenties and early thirties. Sander’s photographs are now selling at high prices on the art market. The film begins 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 dig 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 mn, Reiner Holzemer Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Arte, 2002, vostfr
Great master of photography, August Sander worked until his death to realize a portrait of the men of the 20th century in Germany. This documentary looks back on his life and allows us to explore his work, a true panorama of social and professional classes in Germany, especially during the interwar period.
