Edward Steichen

More than 500 photographs of people from all over the world illustrate those moments and feelings in life that all men share. Reissue.

The Family of Man

The 30th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Book of Photography

Françoise Poos

The Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its 50th anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the US Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 193541 as part of Roosevelts New Deal. The Great Depression of the 1930s defined a generation in modern American history and was still a vivid memory in 1962. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. The Bitter Years celebrates some of the most iconic photographs of the 20th century and, since no proper catalogue was produced at the time, provides a whole new insight into Steichen's impact on the history of documentary photography."

The Farm Security Administration Photographs Through the Eyes of Edward Steichen

The Bitter Years

Steichen

Omar Kholeif

Ali Smith

Francesco Bonami

Roland Barthes

Carl Sandburg

Anke Reitz

Markus Pilgram

Portrait of a Young Planet

Me, Family

Exhibition The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 24-March 25, 1984

Edward Steichen, the Condé Nast Years

Hailed as the most successful exhibition of photography ever assembled, 'The Family of Man' opened at The Museum of Modern Art in January 1955. Presenting what Edward Steichen referred to as a 'collective portrait' of humanity, the exhibition featured 503 photographs from 68 countries, 273 of which were taken by amateur photographers. As the permanent embodiment of this monumental exhibition, this book reproduces every one of the images that Steichen described as 'a mirror of the essential oneness of mankind throughout the world. Photographs made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death.' This hardback edition is published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of this landmark exhibition and book.

Family of Man

Edward Steichen

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