Steichen's Legacy

Steichen's Legacy
Author: Joanna T. Steichen
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0679450769

The companion volume to a major retrospective exhibition of Steichen's work at the Whitney Museum of Art presents more than three hundred photographs, spanning seven decades of work, including stunning landscapes, still lifes, cityscapes, fashion photographs, and portraits of friends, family, and celebrities. 17,500 first printing.

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen
Author: Joel Smith
Publisher: Princeton Univ Department of Art &
Total Pages: 167
Release: 1999
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780691048734

A stunning visual record of the emergence of Steichen as a great artist which explores the photographer's maturing artistry in the light of contemporary developments in photography, graphic design, and graphic arts. 60 color plates. 25 duotones.

The Family of Man Revisited

The Family of Man Revisited
Author: Gerd Hurm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-08-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 100021169X

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries, and was seen by over 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 future for humanity after 1945. The popular international response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Many critics, however, have dismissed the exhibition as a form of sentimental humanism unable to address the challenges of history, politics and cultural difference.This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man, challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes's influential account of the exhibition. The expert contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen's work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. Also presented are documents about the exhibition never before available in English. Commentaries by critical theorist Max Horkheimer and novelist Wolfgang Koeppen, letters from photographer August Sander, and a poetic sequence on the images by Polish poet Witold Wirpsza enable and encourage new critical reflections. A detailed survey of audience responses in Munich from 1955 allows a rare glimpse of what visitors thought about the exhibition. Today, when armed conflict, environmental catastrophe and economic inequality continue to threaten our future, it seems timely to revisit The Family of Man.

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2010
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0300169019

"This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from November 10, 2010, to April 10, 2011."

Edward Steichen

Edward Steichen
Author: Todd Brandow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

By far the most lavish, thoughtfully selected, and beautifully produced book of Steichen s work.

Faces of War

Faces of War
Author: Mark D. Faram
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780425221402

Looks at the history of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit and their work during World War II.

The Family of Man

The Family of Man
Author: Edward Steichen
Publisher: ABRAMS
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1996
Genre: Photography, Artistic
ISBN: 9780810961692

In the pages of this book are reproduced all of the 503 images that Steichen described as "photographs, made in all parts of the world, of the gamut of life from birth to death with emphasis on daily relationship..."-- Back cover.

The Family of Man Revisited

The Family of Man Revisited
Author: Gerd Hurm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2020-08-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1000213358

The Family of Man is the most widely seen exhibition in the history of photography. The book of the exhibition, still in print, is also the most commercially successful photobook ever published. First shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955, the exhibition travelled throughout the United States and to forty-six countries, and was seen by over 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 future for humanity after 1945. The popular international response was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. Many critics, however, have dismissed the exhibition as a form of sentimental humanism unable to address the challenges of history, politics and cultural difference.This book revises the critical debate about The Family of Man, challenging in particular the legacy of Roland Barthes's influential account of the exhibition. The expert contributors explore new contexts for understanding Steichen's work and they undertake radically new analyses of the formal dynamics of the exhibition. Also presented are documents about the exhibition never before available in English. Commentaries by critical theorist Max Horkheimer and novelist Wolfgang Koeppen, letters from photographer August Sander, and a poetic sequence on the images by Polish poet Witold Wirpsza enable and encourage new critical reflections. A detailed survey of audience responses in Munich from 1955 allows a rare glimpse of what visitors thought about the exhibition. Today, when armed conflict, environmental catastrophe and economic inequality continue to threaten our future, it seems timely to revisit The Family of Man.

Getting the Picture

Getting the Picture
Author: Jason E. Hill
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1000211320

Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms. For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news picture, how pictures are selected and distributed, where they are seen and how we critique and value them. Presenting the best new thinking on this fascinating topic, this book considers the news picture over time, from the dawn of the illustrated press in the nineteenth century, through photojournalism’s heyday and the rise of broadcast news and newsreels in the twentieth century and into today’s digital platforms. It examines the many kinds of images: sport, fashion, society, celebrity, war, catastrophe and exoticism; and many mediums, including photography, painting, wood engraving, film and video. Packed with the best research and full colour-illustrations throughout, this book will appeal to students and readers interested in how news and history are key sources of our rich visual culture.