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Title: The Family of Man by Edward Steichen, Carl Sandburg ISBN: 0-87070-341-2 Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (17 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A brilliant presentation of the human spirit on film
Comment: This book details the Family of Man photography exhibit composed of photos that Edward Steichen collected from photographers throughout the world. From the intro by Carl Sandburg (his brother in law), to the photographs of birth, life, death and the emotions and events in between, the book shows true humanity through the eyes of the camera. Featuring works by many famous, but yet unknown photographers, this book is a true treasure. When you glance at its pages you will discover new perspectives, or maybe something inside yourself. This is not a picture book, but a photo biography of the human race. If you are tired of coffee table books that sit unopened, pick up this book a few times and share it with your friends. You will read it again and again, discovering new secrets with every turn of a page.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Family of Man is more of an experience than a book.
Comment: When I was a child, I stumbled on this book, The Family of Man. I read it cover to cover. I wondered at the pictures of human interaction I barely understood, such as men and women falling in love. I smiled at the photographs that I recognized myself in; children playing and laughing, even fighting. I grew angry when I saw a girl who looked a lot like me fighting back against a bully that looked remarkably like a boy I had to contend with at school. I cried at the pictures that frightened or saddened me. The first time I saw the picture of the SS soldier making eye contact with the child who was marching with her parents and neighbors to the Nazi death camps, I didn't know the history it was depicting. I was later to learn my own relatives were part of that dark history. The picture made me uneasy. I came back to the book year after year. Each time understanding it more. Each time I brought more life experience to the book, I got more from it. But right from the first I got it's powerful message: we are all part of one family ...the human family. It probably was the book with the most profound influence on my life. I am happily surprised that they are reissuing it and I can now give my children a copy that isn't falling apart from 40 years of being loved too much.
Rating: 5
Summary: Most wonderful wonderful and yet again wonderful
Comment: First time I saw the pictures collected by Edward Steichen was in the permanent museum of the exhibition, Clervaux in Luxembourg.
I was keeped almost in silence from entering to exiting and the message of the pictures was striking to me then - and 15 years later it still is.
This is a collection of pictures from all the world, picked between Thousands to be the best pictures to describe the family of man as we ALL are. No matter of colour, religion, origin or political believe we are all sons, fathers, lovers, hungry, thirsty, at times fearful and at times playful - WE ARE ALL ALIKE!
This message is as important now as it was in the 50` and looking at extreemist and the war of terror, you can only wonder how come we have learned nothing in 50 years.
The book brings me back to Clervaux and the thoughts about life, and each time I stop at a different picture or text, that captures the essence of where I am at that time of life. The book is universal not only to man but also to moods.
However happy I am to own the book it is nothing compared with the exhibition in Luxembourg. I can only say that I returned and will return again, and for the full experience of these pictures I will recommend it to all.
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Title: The Americans by Robert Frank, Jack Kerouac ISBN: 3931141802 Publisher: Scalo Verlag Ac Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America by Eric J. Sandeen ISBN: 0826315585 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Camera Work : A Pictorial Guide by Alfred Stieglitz ISBN: 0486235912 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 March, 1978 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Alfred Stieglitz : Aperture Masters of Photography by Alfred Stieglitz, Dorothy Norman ISBN: 0893817457 Publisher: Aperture Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: Steichen's Legacy by Joanna Steichen ISBN: 0679450769 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 26 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $100.00 |
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