August Sander's / Young Farmers (1914)
Biography: August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Sander's first book Face of our Time (German title: Antlitz der Zeit) was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century."
Significance: What Sander tried to do was capture a moment and a specific time in space. Something was changing socially in the Germany (the entrance of the Nazi party to the power) and he was capturing that moment through the people that he portrait.
Composition: A mostly dark photograph showing three guys in the midst of a walk, somewhat posed and somewhat natural, they see straight at the camera in the middle of a blank dark field.
Concept: Capturing a moment straight out of the people that were living it. The art of Sanders is on the people that was living a change, that was living a social turmoil and on the event, rather than on the photograph.
Motivation: The motivation comes mostly from portraying the German fellowmen in an original and authentic way, without taking away any emotion, (happiness, worry or anxiety) from it.
My Recreation:
Composition: The idea of capturing an event and let it be shown in the faces or in the poses of the models is what captured my idea. I tried to emulate the "three figures" composition on my piece, yet take another turn and make it a photograph that could stand by it's own.
Concept: Again, trying to capture a moment that was happening. The three guys are just like Sanders' Countrymen: friends and people that are sharing with me a goal and a terrain (being all CAS students and we were all part of a GameJam event at that particular time). I tried to take them as natural as possible, letting them do as they needed to do.
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