Face-Off in Weimar Culture: The Physiognomic Paradigm, Competing Portrait Anthologies, and August Sander’s Face of Our Time
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Brà¼ckle, Wolfgang
Date published
2013
Abstract
August Sander’s photobook Face of Our Time is discussed in relation to interest in physiognomy in Weimar Germany. Much of this book’s success was owed to the obsession of both left- and right-wing writers with the idea that modernity reduced individuality and facial expressiveness.
Journal title
Tate Papers
Issue
19
Publisher
Tate
Place of publication
UK
ISSN
1753-9854
Rights statement
In Copyright