Dalla Renania alla Sardegna ‘arcaica’ e ritorno. La fotografia di paesaggio di August Sander

The Rhenish photographer August Sander (1876-1964) is best known for the series of portraits published in 1929 under the title of Antiltz der Zeit, but his work consists also of landscape photographs: starting from the early 1930s he mainly worked on the Rhine landscape, but in 1927 he had already produced a pioneering about Sardinia, where he had been accompanied by the writer Ludwig Mathar. The result, which has remained unpublished for many decades, is a kaleidoscopic and powerful portrait of an archaic and still little-known land