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The family of man revisited: photography in a global age


Contents

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 Städtische 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.

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    London: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018

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    • 1784539678
    • 9781784539672
    • 178453966X
    • 9781784539665

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    "Published in association with the Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg and with the support of Akkasah: Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi and the Center for American Studies, University of Trier, Germany."


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