The Family of man revisited

The Family of man revisited

Subtitle
photography in a global age
Statement of responsibility
edited by Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, Shamoon Zamir.
Class number
GEN TR 650 F36 2018
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Publication place
New York, USA
ISBN
978-1-78453-967-2
Type of material
Print
Notes, tracings, et.
Includes bibliographical references and index
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Content notes
1. Reassessing Roland Barthes's Myth of The Family of Man / Gerd Hurm -- 2. `The Family of Man -- All of Us' (1958) and `Photography' (1960) / Max Horkheimer -- 3. Max Horkheimer and The Family of Man / Martin Jay -- 4. `The Camera Will Not Miss Anything' (1955): The Family of Man at the Stadtische Galerie / Wolfgang Koeppen -- 5. Two Letters to Edward Steichen / August Sander -- 6. The Family of Man in Munich: Visitors' Reactions / Shamoon Zamir -- 7. The Family of Man: Looking at the Photographs Now and Remembering a Visit in the 1950s / Werner Sollors -- 8. Picture and Image: Another Look at The Family of Man / Winfried Fluck -- 9. Structures of Rhyme, Forms of Participation: The Family of Man as Exhibition / Shamoon Zamir -- 10. A Humanism of Relation: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Place in The Family of Man / Kerstin Schmidt -- 11. Re-exhibiting The Family of Man: Luxembourg 2013 / Anke Reitz -- 12. Et in Arcadia Ego: The Family of Man as Cold War Pastoral / Miles Orvell -- 13. The Family of Man and Post-war Debates about American Art / Ulrike Gehring -- 14. Carl Sandburg's Journey to The Family of Man / Eric J. Sandeen -- 15. Commentaries on Photographs: The Family of Man (1962) / Witold Wirpsza.
Summary
The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published.
Physical description
xiv, 304 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Author 1
Hurm, Gerd, ed.
Author 2
Reitz, Anke, ed.
Author 3
Zamir, Shamoon, ed.
Subject 1
STETCHEN, EDWARD - 1879-1973.
Subject 2
PHOTOGRAPHY, ARTISTIC.
Accession
OFI-014108
Status
Available
Location
Main Library