August Sander:
In this assignment, we were instructed to start with a photograph from the 1920-1940s. In this time period, I found one of August Sander’s photographs. I felt inspired the more that I looked at his work. I have always enjoyed taking portraits and that is what a lot of Sander’s work consisted of. The photo that I was inspired by was titled “Young Farmers” and was taken in 1926. Sander was a German photographer who lived from 1876-1964.
My Interpretation:
When taking this photograph, I knew in order to achieve the same style as Sander I needed to have the background out of focus. In oder to achieve this, I opened the aperture as much as possible, which on my lens is 3.5. I wanted my subject to have a very bland expression on his face because many of Sanders subjects were not smiling in their photographs. I chose to not make my photograph black and white because I like my photographs to have color more than not.
Other Interpretations:
These photos were still inspired by Sander’s work, and I personally like the one on the left the best out of all of these images. Although, I do not think that it fits his style as well as the one I chose. I made the background out of focus in these images and really focused on my subject, but I think the facial expressions do not match the photographs that Sander would have taken back in his time.
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