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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: August Sander: People of the Twentieth CenturyA ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The son of a carpenter, August Sander was born in 1876, in a farming and mining community east of Cologne. |
 | | Sander prefaced the project with a "Portfolio of Archetypes," which he then expanded to form the first group, the Farmer; six other categories followed: the Skilled Tradesman; the Woman; Classes and Professions; the Artists; the City; and, the last and perhaps most compelling category, the Last People, comprising the elderly, the deformed, and the dead. |
 | | Sander's inclusion of these and other marginal elements of German societygypsies and the unemployed also figured in his workincurred the disapproval of the National Socialist party. |
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