"It’s hardly surprising that the Nazis wrecked thousands of Sander’s negatives. For he saw and recorded with his incomparable eye everything they sought to destroy – the soul of the Gypsy, the dignity of the blind man, the philosopher and the dwarf, the humanity of each and all."
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...his contemporary Otto Dix. The images can be compared at Tate Liverpool. For Portraying the Nation is not so much one show as two superbly matched exhibitions in separate galleries, with Dix (1891-1969) as Sander’s antidote, a painter recording man’s corrosive inhumanity."