August Sander, Spiral of Light Bulbs, about 1930 Opening Credits of Vertigo, 1958
August Sander, Spiral of Light Bulbs, about 1930
Opening Credits of Vertigo, 1958
August 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 1930’s. Sander began his work as a photographer after serving in the military in 1901. He specialized in architectural and industrial photography. Sander’s Spiral of Lightbulbs resembles the introduction to Hitchcock’s 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.


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