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拍品专文
Alongside his famous portraits of German types, Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts (People of the Twentieth Century), August Sander also extensively photographed architectural motifs, documenting them as thoroughly and objectively as he did his portrait subjects.
In addition to a planned series of portfolios of architectural motifs under the title Cologne as it was, that looked especially at historical buildings, Sander also presented modernist buildings. In Allianz, as in the artist's portraits, the subject is isolated, so that it is an individual building, rather than the complex structure of the city, that is the focus. In isolating the motif in this way in order to present the building in an apparently objective manner, Sander anticipates the direction taken by subsequent generations of German photographers from the Bechers to Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.
This image was made in the context of a commission from the German company Allianz.
This is the only hitherto recorded print of this image.
In addition to a planned series of portfolios of architectural motifs under the title Cologne as it was, that looked especially at historical buildings, Sander also presented modernist buildings. In Allianz, as in the artist's portraits, the subject is isolated, so that it is an individual building, rather than the complex structure of the city, that is the focus. In isolating the motif in this way in order to present the building in an apparently objective manner, Sander anticipates the direction taken by subsequent generations of German photographers from the Bechers to Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth.
This image was made in the context of a commission from the German company Allianz.
This is the only hitherto recorded print of this image.