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Title: Interesting talk about the "Jungbauern" photo by August Sander
Post by: cs1 on April 14, 2019, 07:54:17 PM

Here's an interesting talk about the photo "Jungbauern" ("Young Farmers") by August Sander:

https://youtu.be/3AVNhTi9pzM (https://youtu.be/3AVNhTi9pzM)

I really like the photo a lot and August Sander's documentary work is very interesting.

If you understand German it's well worth reading an FAZ article about the "demystification" of this photo (the article is from 2014):

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst/entraetseltes-foto-wunder-august-sanders-jungbauern-12895300.html (https://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/kunst/entraetseltes-foto-wunder-august-sanders-jungbauern-12895300.html)

For the technically interested: Sander -- according to his own notes -- shot this picture with a "Globus Reisekamera 13/18" (a "travel camera"). According to the FAZ article he used the following lenses on the trip on which he shot this photo: a Voigtländer Heliar, a Zeiss Tessar, and a Goerz Dagor. The article is interesting because it quotes Ewald Klein (the young man furthest right in the picture). Apart from that the video tells the story as the article does.

Title: Re: Interesting talk about the "Jungbauern" photo by August Sander
Post by: Kai-san on April 17, 2019, 01:13:44 PM

Thanks for sharing this, CS. I found it very interesting since I have the book by John Berger that was quoted here; "About looking". I can thoroughly recommend that and other books by John Berger. He had a way of writing that involves you in his thinking, and really increases your understanding of the processes behind the artworks.