History of Photography Podcast 3 : The Family of Man

When the exhibition The Family of Man opened in January of 1955, 60 years ago this month, visitors were greeted by more than 500 photographs and these words by the poet Carl Sandburg: “People! Flung wide and far, born into toil, struggle, blood and dreams, among lovers, eaters, drinkers, workers, loafers, fighters, players, gamblers. Here are ironworkers, bridgemen, musicians, sandhogs, miners, builders of huts and skyscrapers, jungle hunters, landlords and the landless, the loved and the unloved, the lonely and the abandoned, the brutal and the compassionate-one big family hugging close to the ball of Earth for its life and being.” Links for this episode: Family of Man Re-installation in Luxembourg Professor Fred Turner’s web page The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America – Fred Turner’s great essay on the exhibition (PDF) The Family of Man book on Amazon

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History of Photography Podcast 3 : The Family of Man is an episode from History of Photography Podcast by Jeff Curto.

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This episode was published on Jan 26, 2015.

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