When I was a young boy my Father brought home a magical magazine...
The Family of Man. . . . . . .
...was an ambitious photography exhibition back in 1955 curated by Edward Steichen, the director of New York's Museum of Modern Art's Department of Photography.
He said the exhibition represented the "culmination of his career."
The exhibit was turned into a book of the same name, containing all 503 images grouped thematically to offer striking snapshots of the human experience...
birth...love...joy...war...privation...illness...death
“The first cry of a baby in Chicago, or Zamboango, in Amsterdam or Rangoon, has the same pitch and key, each saying, “I am! I have come through! I belong! I am a member of the Family. Exerpt fron the introduction by Carl Sandburg
In respect to Edward Steichen
Between his birth in 1879 and his death on March 25, 1973 at the age of 93, Edward Steichen was:
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A pioneer in creative photography
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One of the originators of advertising photography
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Head of the U.S. Navy’s photographic division during World War II
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Director of the department of photography at the Museum of Modern Art
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Creator of the best-selling book in the history of photography, The Family of Man
Accused by detractors of being a mere popularizer, he persevered in his attempts to build a broad audience for the medium he believed could be “a major force in the explaining of man to man.”
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