Work in process 5 "Six Sketches for the ancestor spirit masks project"

I made these sketches this morning, working with black and white photographs of german farmers pictured in the first volume of August Sanders "People of the 20th century".

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/August_Sander/Germany_images.htm
"Though it was never fully realized or adequately understood, August Sander’s Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of the 20th Century) was intended as a comprehensive photographic index of the German population, classified into seven groups by social “type”: the Farmer; the Skilled Tradesman; the Woman; Classes and Professions; the Artists; the City; and the Last People. The Nazis confiscated his first publication of the work, but 1800 portraits—150 of which are now on view—made mostly in the 1920s and 1930s survive as well as Sander’s notes and plans for the project, which provided the basis for its reconstruction in book and exhibition form by the August Sander Archiv in Cologne... "