Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the pr…

- August Sander

I never made a person look bad. They do that themselves.

- August Sander

Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell …

- August Sander

Therefore, let me in honesty speak the truth about our epoch and people.

- August Sander

... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere five-hundredth of …

- August Sander

Photography has no dark sides!

- August Sander

No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrab…

- August Sander

Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about o…

- August Sander

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

- August Sander