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

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

... 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

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the worl…

- 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