“What Sander may be doing is to reinforce for his contemporaries their faith in their ability to read the soul, the psyche, character, the world historical through human posture. And the soldier here is his best example. But what we see always, what we always see, are the externals that we imagine map on the internal lives of his subjects, not the subjects’ interior lives. That's the problem of course with this Mappe [portfolio].”
From People of the Twentieth Century: Group IV, Portfolio 23, Photograph 1