Object number1987.51

Handlager

Date1928

Artist August Sander (German, 1876-1964)

CultureGerman

MediumGelatin silver print, printed 1980

DimensionsMatted: 20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.64 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (26.51 x 20.64 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Lydia Evans Tunnard, class of 1936, Fund

On View

On view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

Terms

InscribedOn verso, by Gunther Sander (the artist's son), lower center in pencil: August Sander / 1980 Gunther Sander 1980

MarkingsOn recto, embossed stamp lower left corner: AUG.SANDER./KÖLN/LINDENTHAL

Vassar Exhibitions

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection

Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryThe Friends Focus: On Photography, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, December 7, 1989 - February 11, 1990; Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019; Photography as Data: Augmentation, Extraction, Objectification, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 9 - September 15, 2024
DescriptionBlack and white image of a young man staring directly at the photographer while holding a neatly stacked pile of bricks on his shoulders. He wears an eight quarter newsboy cap, pants, long sleeve shirt, and a neck scarf tucked into a well creased button-up vest. He raises one hand to steady the bricks while the other rests on his hip. The background is fully shadowed and the man's gaze appears stern.

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