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Dust jacket not shown. In 1929 Antlitz der Zeit, a first selection from August Sander's project, was published, with an introduction by the writer Alfred Döblin. Together with Die Welt ist schön by Albert Renger-Patzsch from the same year and the work of Karl Blossfeldt, whose Urformen der Kunst had been released a year earlier, Sander developed a new direction in German photography based on analysis and registration. In 1934 the German Reichs Chamber for Visual Arts ordered that both the printing plates and the available copies of Antlitz der Zeit should be destroyed, partly because the portraits showed human images that did not exactly correspond to the ideal images of the Nazis.
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