The Family of Man Revisited

Photography in a Global Age
Herausgeber: Hurm, Gerd; Zamir, Shamoon; Reitz, Anke

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 636g
• ISBN-13: 9781784539672
• ISBN-10: 1784539678
• Artikelnr.: 48330195

Autorenporträt

Gerd Hurm is Professor of American literature and Director of the Center for American Studies at the University of Trier, Germany. He has published widely in the fields of urban, media, and gender studies and he is currently researching the photography, aesthetics and curatorial politics of Edward Steichen. Anke Reitz is a photography curator at the Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA) in Luxembourg and is in charge of the CNA's Steichen Collections The Family of Man and The Bitter Years. Her current focus is on audiovisual arts, photographic history and conservation, as well as art mediation. Shamoon Zamir is Associate Professor of Literature and Visual Studies and Director of Akkasah: Center for Photography at New York University Abu Dhabi. He works on American literature, photography and intellectual history. He is the author of The Gift of the Face: Portraiture and Time in Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian (2014) and co-editor of The Photobook (I.B. Tauris, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

Revisiting The Family of Man: IntroductionShamoon Zamir and Gerd
Hurm2.Reassessing Roland Barthes's Myth of The Family of ManGerd Hurm3."The
Family of Man-All of Us" (1958) & "Photography" (1960)Max Horkheimer4.Max
Horkheimer and The Family of ManMartin Jay5."The Camera Will Not Miss
Anything" (1955)Wolfgang Koeppen6.Two Letters to Edward SteichenAugust
Sander7.The Family of Man in Munich: Visitors' ReactionsShamoon Zamir8.The
Family of Man: Looking at the Photographs Now and Remembering a Visit in
the 1950s.Werner Sollors9.Picture and Image: Another Look at The Family of
ManWinfried Fluck10.Structures of Rhyme, Forms of Participation: The Family
of Man as ExhibitionShamoon Zamir11.A Humanism of Relation: Aesthetics and
Philosophy of Place in Edward Steichen's The Family of ManKerstin
Schmidt12.Re-Exhibiting The Family of Man: Luxembourg 2013Anke Reitz13.Et
in arcadia ego: Death in The Family of ManMiles Orvell14.The Family of Man
and Post-War Debates about American Art Ulrike Gehring15.Carl Sandburg's
Journey to The Family of ManEric Sandeen16.Commentary on Photography: The
Family of Man (1962)Witold Wripsza. Translated and introduced by Benjamin
Paloff.BibliographyContributorsIndex