{"id":31690,"title":"The Family of Man","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1955-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":220,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":30,"permalink":"the-family-of-man-1955","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/086/641/medium_500/Cover_of_the_softcover_edition_of_%27The_Family_of_Man%27.jpg?1662645728","cached_actor_names":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/086/641/large/Cover_of_the_softcover_edition_of_'The_Family_of_Man'.jpg?1662645728","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Family of Man, 1955\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nExhibition catalogue\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nPublished by Museum of Modern Art, New York\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nFirst edition\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Family of Man\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was a photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, the director of the New York City Museum of Modern Art\u0026rsquo;s (MoMA) Department of Photography. As described in the catalogue, the exhibition included photographs representing \u0026ldquo;the gamut of life from birth with emphasis on daily relationships of man to himself, to his family, to the community and to the\u0026nbsp;world we live in \u0026ndash; subject matter ranging from babies to philosophers, from the kindergarten to the university, from primitive peoples to the Councils of the United Nations\u0026rdquo;.\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eThe Family of Man\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was first shown in 1955 from\u0026nbsp;January 24 to May 8 at MoMA, and then toured the world in five different versions for the following seven years. An important part of the United States Information Agency\u0026rsquo;s (USIA) propaganda programme, the exhibition, which\u0026nbsp;was presented as an expression of humanism, played a significant role in promoting the values of the West as universal in the post-War decades. The version of the exhibition in Moscow (1959) was attended by Steichen himself and later considered by him as \u0026ldquo;the high spot of the project\u0026rdquo;. The exhibition was received negatively by photographers, as well as theorists, for its universalism and oversimplification. Philosopher Roland Barthes in his book\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eMythologies\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;(1957) describes the exhibition as an example of modern myth \u0026ndash; in this case that of the ideological representation of \u0026ldquo;conventional humanism\u0026rdquo;. According to Barthes: \u0026ldquo;Everything here, the content and appeal of the pictures, the discourse which justifies them, aims to suppress the determining weight of History: we are held back at the surface of an identity, prevented precisely by sentimentality from penetrating into this ulterior zone of human behaviour where historical alienation intrudes some \u0026lsquo;differences\u0026rsquo; which we shall here quite simply call \u0026lsquo;injustices\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}