THE FAMILY OF MAN REVISITED

Photography in a Global Age

Edited by Gerd Hurm Anke Reitz Shamoon Zamir

Published in association with the Centre national de I'audiovisuel (CNA), Luxembourg and with the support of Akkasah: Center for at New York University Abu Dhabi and the Center for American Studies, University of Trier, Germany

B akkasah cLuiLl£ • CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY •9 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY ABU DHABI Contents

List of Illustrations IX

Introduction: 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 Stadtische Galerie Wolfgang Koeppen

5 Two Letters to 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 Sollors

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 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 Family of Man as Pastoral 191 Miles Orvell

13 The Family of Man and Post-war Debates about American Art 211 Ulrike Gehring

14 's Journey to The Family of Man 221 Eric J. Sandeen

15 Commentaries on Photographs: The Family of Man (1962) 235 Witold Wirpsza

Bibliography 275 Notes on Contributors 283 Index 287