76/ 539 [Photography]. Sander, A. Antlitz der Zeit. Sechzig Aufnahmen deutscher Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Introd. A. Döblin. Munich, Transmare and K. Wolff Verlag, (1929), 1st ed., 17,(3)p., 60 photogr. portr. plates by A. SANDER, orig. cl. by E. PREETORIUS, 4to.

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= Parr/ Badger I, p.124: "(...) Sander's magnum opus (whatever its roots in the dubious nineteenth-century 'science' of physiognomy) was thoroughly of the twentieth century - sceptical, objective, lucid. (...) But many of his classic images are included in this seminal photobook, and the essential qualities of Sander's vision can be seen. He took typical examples of professions, trades and social classes in Weimer Germany, and photographed them in the familiar environments in order to build up, piece by piece, a dispassionate image of the 'face' of society (...)". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXVI.