Quotes by August Sander - Page 1

Photography has no dark sides!
August Sander / Photographer
Dark
Photography
Sides
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I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.
August Sander / Photographer
Looks
Made
Persons
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In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
August Sander / Photographer
Inspirational
Photography
Shadow
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Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.
August Sander / Photographer
Honesty
People
Speak
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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 / Photographer
Fidelity
Mean
Photography
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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 / Photographer
Age
Hate
People
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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 / Photographer
Cameras
Sight
Years
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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 / Photographer
Honesty
People
Photography
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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 / Photographer
Earth
Path
Photography
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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 / Photographer
People
Photography
Sweet
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... 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 / Photographer
Moments
Mortification
Movement
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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.
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Mirrors
Photography
Portraits
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