TY - BOOK ID - 135566269 TI - The family of man revisited : photography in a global age AU - Hurm, Gerd AU - Reitz, Anke AU - Zamir, Shamoon AU - Centre national de l'audiovisuel (Luxembourg) AU - New York University in Abu Dhabi. AU - Universität Trier. PY - 2018 SN - 9781784539672 1784539678 178453966X 9781784539665 PB - London I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd DB - UniCat KW - Photography, Artistic KW - Exhibitions KW - Steichen, Edward, KW - Family of man (Exhibition) KW - Family of Man UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135566269 AB - First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, this exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to 46 countries, and was seen by over nine million people. Edward Steichen conceived, curated and designed the exhibition. The exhibition was a statement against war and the conflicts and divisions that threatened a common future for humanity after 1945. Many critics, however, have dismissed the exhibition as a form of sentimental humanism unable to address the challenges of history, politics and cultural difference. This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man, challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes's influential account of the exhibition. The contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen's work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. ER -