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No language on earth speaks as comprehensively as photography, always providing that we follow the chemical and optic and physical path to demonstrable truth, and understand physiognomy.

August Sander

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August Sander
Age: 87 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 1
Died: 1964
Died: January 1
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