SANDER SARDINIA 1927 | Sardinia as seen by August Sander : a photographic voyage honoring August Sander (1876-1942) through an exhibition of 40 rare and mostly unknown photographs and autochromes taken in Sardinia in 1927. This Sardinian cycle by German photographer August Sander will be visible for the first time on the American continent.
August Sander is considered as one of the founding fathers of modern photography with his masterpiece of a lifetime Men of the 20th Century. Sander’s profound importance and influence in the field of photography is reflected in the work of iconic 20th century photographers such as – to name but a few: on the American side we find Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Diane Arbus; in Germany the entire Düsseldorf school in the wake of Bernd and Hilla Becher and closer to us the work of Rineke Dijkstra.
Selected from a set of approximately 300 negatives taken in the spring of 1927 during a very rare trip abroad by Sander, the prints offer a vision that goes against the grain of an exotic, wild and virgin Sardinia like that imagined by most travelers of the time, D.H. Lawrence first and foremost or even National Geographic. The photographer will reveal to attentive viewers all the contradictions that run through Sardinia: an island territory that more than any other place in Europe simultaneously offers its past, its present and its future, in a single glance.
September 18th 2024 – December 20th 2024
Free admission
Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal
1200 Av. du Dr Penfield
• from Monday to Thursday: 9am – 1pm and 2pm – 5pm
• Friday: 9am – 1pm
Commissariat : Florent To Lay
An exhibition produced by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Cologne, the Italiano di Cultura Hambourg, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Strasbourg and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Montréal
In collaboration with Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur – August Sander Archiv (Cologne)
In partnership with the Musée de Charlevoix (La Malbaie)
The organizers would like to thank: Sardes du Québec ; Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes de l’Université de Montréal ; Goethe-Institut Montréal
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