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List of Illustrations ix

lntroduction: The Family of Man Revisited 1 Shamoon Zamir and Gerd Hurm

1 Reassessing Roland Barthes's Myth of The Family of Man 23 Gerd Hurm

2 'The Family of Man -All of Us' (1958} and 'Photography' (1960} 47 Max Horkheimer

3 Max Horkheimer and The Family of Man 57 Martin Jay

4 'The Camera Will Not Miss Anything' (1955}: The Family of Man 71 at the Städtische Galerie Wolfgang Koeppen

5 Two Letters to Edward Steichen 73 August Sander

6 The Family of Man in Munich: Visitors' Reactions 77 Shamoon Zamir

7 The Family of Man: Looking at the Photographs Now 95 and Remembering a Visit in the 1950s Werner So//ors

8 Picture and Image: Another Look at The Family of Man 117 Winfried Fluck viii CONTENTS

9 Structures of Rhyme, Forms of Participation: The Family of Man 133 as Exhibition List of III Shamoon Zamir

10 A Humanism of Relation: Aesthetics and Philosophy of Place 159 in The Family of Man Kerstin Schmidt

11 Re-exhibiting The Family of Man: Luxembourg 2013 177 Anke Reitz

12 Et in Arcadia Ego: The Fami/y of Man as Cold War Pastoral 191 Frontispiece Rol Mi/es Orvel/ of Modern Ar The Museum 13 The Family of Man and Post-war Debates about American Art 211 1 The Family o Ulrike Gehring © Ezra Stolle 2 The Family o 14 Carl Sandburg's Journey to The Family of Man 221 © Ezra Stolle Eric J. Sandeen 3 Bertolt Brecr 15 Commentaries on Photographs: The Fami/y of Man (1962) 235 Künste, Berli Witold Wirpsza Universität d1 4 Back cover: E Bibliography 275 5 Alfred Eisens Notes an Contributors 283 Collection © Index 287 6 The Family c Man: central 7 Floor plan ar New York Cit Photography 8 The Family c.

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