The obsession of Sander with the faces that were surrounding him was going on for years after the war in his already destroyed country. In a period whish every photographer would like to record scenes of concrete truth from the war, scenes of distraction and misery. Sander focuses on the face of a young soldier who survived. With an almost fake countryside background from a farm, which probably is the place that he comes from. With a simple and symmetric frame. With the image of a uniform synonymous with violence. With clear war symbols. The image however leads us directly to the living-deed look of the young soldier who staring us with out never answering our questions. With the beautiful, expressionless face, which doesn’t projects, neither sadness, joy, fear or pride. Sanders remain one of the biggest manipulator of emotions with minimum means.
August Sanders, lived in a small town next to Colonia Germane, he worked as a professional photographer in the middle war. His work was basically well made portraits of the high society. But in a point he realized the discretional power of photography and then he started a huge personal photographic project, with misleading name: Man of 20th century.
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