Janna Ireland

I mentioned that August Sander is my favorite photographer in the slide lecture I gave today, and one of the students asked me why. I tried to explain how incredible it is to have a comprehensive record of the different kinds of people living in Germany right before Hitler came into power and turned the whole world upside down, how beautiful the faces are, how much Sander’s work moves me every time I look at it (to tears, actually, but I didn’t say that part), how my People of the 20th Century boxset is one of the first things I’d save if my house were on fire (preceded only by husband, cat and dog, laptop, and external hard drive), but I don’t know if I made myself clear. Sander is the coolest. THE COOLEST.