“Widower (1914) immediately conjures this notion of a person who is no longer in that frame. [...] Clearly Sander had allowed them the manner in which they wanted to present themselves to the camera. So for me they are suffused with a sense of loss and with something that has transpired outside our encounter with the image, which, in the best sense, brings that forward to us: the enormity of the rift within their family.”
From People of the Twentieth Century: Group III, Portfolio 15, Photograph 7