Contents

List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Family of Man Revisited

Shamoon Zamir and Gerd Hurm

1 Reassessing Roland Barthes’s Myth of The Family of Man

Gerd Hurm

2The Family of Man – All of Us’ (1958) and ‘Photography’ (1960)

Max Horkheimer

3 Max Horkheimer and The Family of Man

Martin Jay

4 ‘The Camera Will Not Miss Anything’ (1955): The Family of Man at the Städtische Galerie

Wolfgang Koeppen

5 Two Letters to Edward Steichen

August Sander

6 The Family of Man in Munich: Visitors’ Reactions

Shamoon Zamir

7 The Family of Man: Looking at the Photographs Now and Remembering a Visit in the 1950s

Werner Sollors

8 Picture and Image: Another Look at The Family of Man

Winfried Fluck

9 Structures of Rhyme, Forms of Participation: The Family of Man as Exhibition

Shamoon Zamir

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

Kerstin Schmidt

11 Re-exhibiting The Family of Man: Luxembourg 2013

Anke Reitz

12 Et in Arcadia Ego: The Family of Man as Cold War Pastoral

Miles Orvell

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

Ulrike Gehring

14 Carl Sandburg’s Journey to The Family of Man

Eric J. Sandeen

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

Witold Wirpsza

Bibliography

Notes on Contributors