Face to Face? An Ethical Encounter with Germany’s Dark Strangers in August Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century

Tubb, Katherine

Face to Face? An Ethical Encounter with Germany’s Dark Strangers in August Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century

Resource type

Journal article

Creator (person)

Tubb, Katherine

Date published

2013

Abstract

August Sander’s portraits of marginalised subjects are often evoked as visual shorthand for his inclusive vision of the German nation. This article uses a portrait he made around 1930 showing two circus workers, an ‘Indian’ man and a white woman, to assess how Sander’s work deals with the cognitive and ethical difficulties posed to interwar Germany by its ‘dark strangers’.

Journal title

Tate Papers

Issue

19

Publisher

Tate

Place of publication

UK

ISSN

1753-9854

Official URL

https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/19/face-to-face-an-ethical-encounter-with-germany-dark-strangers-in-august-sanders-people-of-the-twentieth-century

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In Copyright

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/