The Family of Man
$53.69
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
12 September 1996
Summary
Hailed as the most successful and inspiring exhibition of photography ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art in January 1955. This book, the permanent embodiment of Steichen’s monumental exhibition, reproduces all of the 503 images that Steichen described as “a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world… Photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death… Photographs of lovers and marriage and child-bearing… Photographs concerned with man’s dreams and aspirations and photographs of the flaming creative forces of love and truth and the corrosive evil inherent in the lie.” This is a classic and inspiring work, in print for more than forty years.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780870703416 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0870703412 |
| Author: | Edward Steichen |
| Publisher: | Museum of Modern Art |
| Imprint: | Museum of Modern Art |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Edition: | 30th |
| Release Date: | 12 September 1996 |
| Weight: | 716g |
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Critics Review
The book – the museum’s most popular publication ever with more than 300,000 copies sold – is a foundational volume, familiar to pretty much any photographer working in the latter half of the 20th century.–David Gonzalez “Lens”
The way I like to think of this book is that it is a springboard for contemporary critical judgment. Even with the approaches that now seem so problematic, it is no less interesting. That’s all the more reason for people to have it in their hands to judge for themselves.–Sarah Meister “Lens”
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