“I think where the project is, and where it gains a lot of momentum and a lot of energy and a lot of oomph as an artistic project, is in the serialization that’s happening here, the repetition, what that means vis-à-vis society—an ever-changing society, not a frozen society—and the fact that he is almost…in this weird mimesis of capitalist production. He’s producing types, he’s producing repeatedly, serially, and we, the consumers, we the viewers, are looking into that world of products that he’s putting out there and we’re saying, ‘What are the relationships?’ And that’s where it gains currency, and that’s why I think we’re still here talking about it.”
From People of the Twentieth Century: Group IV, Portfolio 23a, Photograph 10
For the portfolio The National Socialist, Omer Fast presented his 3-D stereoscopic film August (2016). Afterward, during the roundtable discussion, Fast reflected on the structure of Sander’s People of the Twentieth Century:
August Sander. National Socialist, Head of Department of Culture. c. 1938. Gelatin silver print. Acquired through the generosity of the family of August Sander. © 2017 Die Photographische Sammlung/SK Stiftung Kultur — August Sander Archiv, Cologne/ARS, NY