The August Sander Foundation was established in Cologne in 2015 by Julian Sander, the great-grandson of the great photographer. Its aim is to process and summarize the work of August Sander. By focusing on the individual and not classifying them or reducing them to gender and origin, August Sander created a world view that society is still working on implementing today.
The responsive design retains its clear and restrained lines on all screen sizes and offers the mostly black and white photographs the necessary space to work. The design manages completely without color and creates the hierarchies that are important for orientation exclusively through typography and space division.
The site contains interactive functions, such as an overview of all collections with works by August Sander worldwide as a map and a chronological presentation of all Sander exhibitions to date in the form of a time spiral.
Search and filter functions offer complex research options in the archive's extensive image database. Topics are linked not only historically and in terms of content, but also via the works themselves, integrating articles and images into a network-like structure.
Last but not least, large amounts of text had to be converted into a reader-friendly, well-structured form in order to guarantee a pleasant user experience even during long searches.
