Emblems of the Passing World: Poems After Photographs by August Sander

by Adam Kirsch

August Sander's photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America's most celebrated writers and critics Through his portraits of ordinary people--soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers--August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590517342
• ISBN13: 9781590517345
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Other Press (NY)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.6"