The Family of man: the 30th anniversary edition of the classic book of photography

Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

The Museum, 1983 - Photography - 192 pages

This now classic book is the permanent embodiment of Edward Steichen's masterpiece - a creation that has been hailed as the most successful and inspiring exhibition of photography ever assembled. The Family of Man opened at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, in January 1955 and thereafter traveled throughout the United States and much of the world. In the pages of this book are reproduced all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death with emphasis on... daily relationships.... Photographs of lovers and marriage and child-bearing, of the family unit with its joys, trials and tribulations.... 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".

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User Review  - Stephanie Fysh - Goodreads

Interesting as a historical document -- an important moment in photography -- but frustrating in and of itself. The overrepresentation of the United States compared with the rest of the world, the ...

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User Review  - Luigi - Goodreads

A classic, good, bad, happy sad, every corner of the earth

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Family of man: the 30th anniversary edition of the classic book of photography
• Authors: Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
• Editor: Edward Steichen
• Contributor: Edward Steichen
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: The Museum, 1983
• Original from: the University of California
• Digitized: Jan 19, 2010
• Length: 192 pages
• Subjects: Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions; Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General; Photography / General; Photography / Individual Photographer; Photography / Subjects & Themes / Portraits