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August Sander
The German photographer August Sander was driven to create a portrait atlas of the breadth and diversity of German society in the late 1920s and early 1930s. His document of formal portrait studies records the ordinary German people in the last days of the Weimar Republic and the ascendant years of the Third Reich. Sander fell foul of the Nazi authorities, his son, a member of the communist party died in a German civil jail and Sander's great work, his portrait series, Citizens of the Twentieth Century remained unpublished until 1980. His portraits have since been come to be regarded as one of the great achievements of twentieth century photography being valued both for their artistic achievement and as invaluable historical documents. The National Portrait Gallery held a major retrospective of Sander's work in 1997.
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