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Sander, Spiral of Light Bulbs, about 1930
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Opening
Credits of Vertigo, 1958
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Sander, who was born in Herdorf, Germany in 1876, is most famous for his photo-documentary
project of the German people called Man in the Twentieth Century. The
Nazis banned this project, which depicted various social classes in their respective
settings, in the 1930s. Sander began his work as a photographer after
serving in the military in 1901. He specialized in architectural and industrial
photography. Sanders Spiral of Lightbulbs resembles the introduction
to Hitchcocks Vertigo. Both spiraled images purvey the viewer with
a feeling of vertigo, making this an appropriate sequence of images for the
introduction to the film Vertigo. |