The Family Off Man Is the Most Widely Seenm Exhibition in the History of Photography

The Family Off Man Is the Most Widely Seenm Exhibition in the History of Photography

HE AMILY OF AN TThe Family oFf Man is the most widely seenM exhibition in the history of photography. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition traveled throughout the United States and to 46 countries, and was seen by more than nine million people. Edward Steichen conceived, curated, and designed the exhibition. He explained its subject as "the everydayness of life" and "the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world." The exhibition was a statement against war and the conflicts and divisions that threatened a common fu- Sicily, 1940s ture for humanity after 1945. Vito Fiorenza Duncan Miller Gallery presents this rare group of 13 original photographs made page 56 of the from each photographer’s original negatives. These photographs were printed original 1955 by Compo Photocolor in NYC in 1954. The same lab made nearly all of the MoMA catalog museum’s original exhibition prints at that time. Each contains the official Family of Man stamp of the Museum of Moden Art on its verso. These photographs are of- fered as a collection for $30,000. Mexico, c.1947 Australian India, 1947 Jasper Wood Aborigines, Margaret c.1949 Bourke-White page 191 of the Laurence Le original 1955 Guay page 146 of the MoMA catalog original 1955 page 8 of the MoMA catalog original 1955 MoMA catalog Lonnie Fair USA, 1947 China, 1946 and Son, 1936 (Portland Dmitri Kessel Alfred Maine) Eisenstaedt Kosti page 65 of the Ruohomaa original 1955 page 52 of the MoMA catalog original 1955 page 114 of the MoMA catalog original 1955 MoMA catalog France, c.1937 France, c.1947 Princeton Nora Dumas (Paris Opera University, USA House) 1947 page 113 of the Walter Sanders Alfred original 1955 Eisenstaedt MoMA catalog page 100 of the original 1955 page 126 of the MoMA catalog original 1955 MoMA catalog Nursing Mother and Mother, c.1948 China, 1946 Children, 1946 Nell Door Dmitri Kessel Wayne Miller (was cover of page 24 of the page 95 of the Life magazine original 1955 original 1955 in 1955) MoMA catalog MoMA catalog page 33 of the original 1955 MoMA catalog DUNCANMILLERGALLERY [email protected] (310) 453-1111.

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