Framework Houses

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“In order to summon a cross-section of our time and of the German people, I’ve collected these photographs in portfolios and, in doing so, I’m starting with the estate of my parents, as a farmer’s son. I want to show the human being in his or her spiritual and material formation, influenced as it is by profession, milieu and by events of our time.”

August Sander about People of the 20th Century