Including the aforementioned works of Eisenstaedt and Cartier-Bresson, this exhibition featured work by 273 photographers from 68 countries, including Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother.
Regarding this project, one critic wrote that it gives "to the immobility of the world the alibi of a 'wisdom' and a 'lyricism' which only make [gestures] look eternal the better to defuse them." A work in this project shows a single-file line of children following a high-stepping drum major through a park, while another shows a groom next to his bride as she gleefully rides a swing. In Mythologies, Roland Barthes criticized this exhibition, which had a prologue written by Carl Sandburg and used Eugene Harris' Peruvian Flute Player as a cover image for its catalogue. Originally shown at MoMA, this exhibition toured (*) 37 countries and had displays arranged into themes like birth, children, careers, and war. Including the aforementioned works of Eisenstaedt and Cartier-Bresson, this exhibition featured work by 273 photographers from 68 countries, including Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother. For 10 points, name this photography exhibition organized by Edward Steichen to show humanity's common bonds.
Regarding this project, one critic wrote that it gives "to the immobility of the world the alibi of a 'wisdom' and a 'lyricism' which only make [gestures] look eternal the better to defuse them."
The Family of Man