August Sander: Face of Our Time (Schirmer Visual Library)

Pristine, clean & tight copy, unread in As New condition. "One of the legendary classics among German photography books, August Sander's FACE OF OUR TIME was first published in 1929, with a foreword by Alfred Doblin. 'The sixty shots of 20th-century Germans which the author includes represent only a small selection drawn from August Sander's major work, which he began in 1910. The author has not approached his immense self-imposed task from an academic standpoint, nor with scientific aids, and has received advice neither from racial theorists nor from social researchers. He has approached his task as a photographer from his own immediate observations of human nature and human appearances, of the human environment, and with an infallible instinct for what is genuine and essential. And he has brought the task to completion with the fanaticism of a seeker after truth, and without prejudice either for or against any one party, tendency, class, or society.'" Quite presentable & collectible.