Wall Street Journal
Originally Posted: October 29, 2015
The German photographer August Sander (1876-1964) called his life’s work “People of the Twentieth Century.” In “Emblems of the Passing World,” the poet Adam Kirsch reproduces 46 images from what he terms Sander’s “massive portfolio of documentary portraits.” More compellingly, he adds poetic commentaries on these studies of ordinary Germans who lived during their country’s worst period. READ MORE