August Sander - "Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts"

Sanders main work was a set of photographs which categorised people into various categories depending on their jobs in general, the set of photographs, taken over around twenty years attempted to document each level of society from bankers to homeless people. The pieces were taken as portraits and usually showed people in the clothing they wore to work in or for the homeless the clothing they wore on the street. He worked for a long time documenting as many people as he could with the aim of creating a body of work that documented people from every walk of life in Germany. The pieces are interesting as they show everyone in the background of where they worked or spent most of their time. This makes for an interesting set of images. 

This image of a baker is interesting it shows him looking proud of his profession, in the uniform he would wear to work and in the background of a kitchen. The lighting in this image seems to come exclusively from the light that is in the room, it would be difficult at the time of taking the images (early 1900's) to take a lighting kit with him to the shoot. The images were all shot using a large format camera which gives a large amount of clarity even in the black and white images. I think for my image i would also like to use a photograph of someone in a uniform that they use to go to work in, i think it would be difficult to take the photograph within someones workplace but it could be looked into, i am unsure weather i would try modernise the image by using a digital camera and flash or studio lighting. I think it would be interesting to use a large format camera for this piece but it would also be very difficult as i have only had a couple of sessions using one.