image by
August Sander

Bauer. Westerwald, ca. 1930/31
Farmer

I don´t know the dress code of those times,
for that,
this farmer,
looks for me
like an undertaker,
beaten by life.

Obviously a misinterpretation.

Still, this photograph,
as many others by August Sander,
shows his mastery of the form.

An image,
that,
while relating to reality,
has a layer,
that is devoted purely to abstraction.