{"id":31696,"title":"The Family of Man exhibition poster","dimensions":"84 x 59,5 cm","date_begin":"1955-01-01","material":"The Family of Man exhibition poster, 1955. 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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":"\u003cp\u003eL\u0026rsquo;exposition photo\u003cem\u003e The Family of Man\u003c/em\u003e (\u0026laquo; La Famille de l\u0026rsquo;homme \u0026raquo;) a \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; compos\u0026eacute;e par le photographe Edward Steichen, directeur du d\u0026eacute;partement de photographie du MoMA \u0026agrave; New York de 1947 \u0026agrave; 1962. Comme indiqu\u0026eacute; dans son catalogue, cette exposition pr\u0026eacute;sentait des photos \u0026laquo; de toute la vie de l\u0026rsquo;homme, \u0026agrave; partir de sa naissance, en mettant l\u0026rsquo;accent sur les relations quotidiennes qu\u0026rsquo;a l\u0026rsquo;individu avec lui-m\u0026ecirc;me, sa famille, la soci\u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; et le monde dans lequel nous vivons, avec des sujets allant des b\u0026eacute;b\u0026eacute;s aux philosophes, de la maternelle \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;universit\u0026eacute;, des peuples primitifs au Conseil des Nations Unies \u0026raquo;. Apr\u0026egrave;s avoir \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; initialement organis\u0026eacute;e au MoMA du 24 janvier au 8 mai 1955, \u003cem\u003eThe Family of Ma\u003c/em\u003en a parcouru le monde pendant les sept ann\u0026eacute;es suivantes, dans cinq versions diff\u0026eacute;rentes. Cette exposition faisait partie prenante du programme de propagande de l\u0026rsquo;Agence d\u0026rsquo;information des \u0026Eacute;tats-Unis (USIA). M\u0026ecirc;me si elle \u0026eacute;tait pr\u0026eacute;sent\u0026eacute;e comme une expression de l\u0026rsquo;humanisme, elle a jou\u0026eacute; un r\u0026ocirc;le important dans les d\u0026eacute;cennies de l\u0026rsquo;apr\u0026egrave;s-guerre par sa promotion des valeurs occidentales, pr\u0026eacute;sent\u0026eacute;es comme \u0026laquo; universelles \u0026raquo;. Steichen a lui-m\u0026ecirc;me particip\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; la version moscovite de l\u0026rsquo;exposition (1959), qu\u0026rsquo;il qualifiera plus tard de \u0026laquo; point culminant du projet \u0026raquo;. \u003cem\u003eThe Family of Man\u003c/em\u003e a suscit\u0026eacute; des r\u0026eacute;actions n\u0026eacute;gatives de la part de plusieurs photographes, mais aussi de la part de th\u0026eacute;oriciens, en raison de son universalisme suppos\u0026eacute; et de sa simplification excessive.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[]}