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Previous Sales 65

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Publications9

Monograph 1

Exhibition Catalog 6

Group Catalog 2

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Current Exhibitions1

August Sander’s People of the 20th Century

August Sander

1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06510, USA

Feb 27, 2026 — Jun 28, 2026

August Sander’s People of the 20th Century February 27, 2026 – June 28, 2026

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The Yale Art Gallery's fourth floor is hosting five concurrent exhibitions running through June, including solo shows by John Coplans, August Sander, …
exhibitionsMay 24, 2026
Photo London opened its 2025 edition at a new venue, Olympia’s Grand Hall in West Kensington, on 13 May, moving from its previous decade-long home at …
exhibitionsMay 16, 2026
Italian photographer Paolo Roversi, based in Paris since 1973, has opened a permanent gallery space in his hometown of Ravenna. The Paolo Roversi Gall…
exhibitionsMay 15, 2026
The Kunsthalle Bremen has opened "Remix. Photographie – Fiktion und Wahrheit," an exhibition drawn from its permanent collection that explores the ten…
exhibitionsApr 19, 2026
The New Museum has launched "New Humans: Memories of the Future," a massive exhibition spanning its entire building and featuring over 200 internation…
exhibitionsApr 9, 2026
The Fondazione Prada in Milan is hosting “Typologien,” a survey of 20th-century German photography curated by Suzanne Pfeffer of Frankfurt’s Museum fü…
exhibitionsMay 19, 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a promised gift of more than 6,500 works from German American photography collector Artur Walt…
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Sotheby's New York held a single-owner auction titled "175 Masterworks To Celebrate 175 Years of Photography: Property from Joy of Giving Something Fo…
marketMay 9, 2025
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Past Exhibitions5

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August Sander

August Sander

41 E 57th St 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022, United States

Feb 1, 2018 — May 2, 2018

August Sander: Prints for the Aperture Monograph

August Sander

526 W 26th St Room 411, New York, NY 10001, USA

Sep 17, 2015 — Oct 31, 2015

Extraordinary images of ordinary people

August Sander

Nov 17, 2007 — Feb 3, 2008

August Sander: Printed by His Son Gunther Sander

August Sander

526 W 26th St Room 411, New York, NY 10001, USA

Dec 1, 2005 — Feb 1, 2006

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Art Fair Appearances3

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Paris Photo — Paris
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Paris Photo — Paris
2017
Photo London — London
2016
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Exhibition
August Sander’s People of the 20th Century
Feb 27, 2026
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Exhibition
August Sander’s People of the 20th Century
Feb 27, 2026
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Paris Photo 2018
Nov 8, 2018
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Exhibition
Feb 1, 2018
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Paris Photo 2017
Nov 9, 2017
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Photo London 2016
May 19, 2016
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Exhibition
Extraordinary images of ordinary people
Nov 17, 2007
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August Sander dies
Jan 1, 1964
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August Sander born
Jan 1, 1876
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