Match-seller

August Sander · 1927

This one's called Match-seller — a photograph by Sander, nineteen twenty-seven. The piece is gelatin silver print, about 26 by 19 centimeters.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 10 3/16 × 7 3/8" (25.8 × 18.7 cm) · Credit Acquired through the generosity of the family of August Sander

Hanging beside it in Gallery 514: Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Politician [Rosi Wolfstein-Frölich]

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: New York, New York, Beginning to Loom Larger and Larger on the Horizon, Pipe fitters finishing the engine room of a tuna-fishing boat. Campbell Shipyard. San Diego harbor from the series Fish Story, Workman. Costume design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Display IX, Los Angeles, California

More by August Sander here: Bohemians [Willi Bongard and Gottfried Brockmann], Police Officer, Proletarian Intellectuals [Else Schuler, Tristan Rémy, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, Gerd Arntz], Painter [Anton Räderscheidt], Girl in Fairground Caravan, Member of Parliament (Democrat)