Documentation

Documentation

In this section, we provide photos, videos or other documents related to our activities and events.
These documents are intended e.g. for research purposes or preparing a tour of the collections.
The Family of Man in the 21st Century:
Reassessing an Epochal Exhibition
The conference wants to reassess and discuss the exhibition’s appeal and message, launched against the backdrop of Cold War threat of atomic annihilation. It also wants to indicate new ways in which the exhibition, as an artistic response to a historical moment of crisis, can remain relevant in the context of 21st century challenges. Download the programme of the conference. The book entitled "The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age" with the contributio...

videos photos programme

Publication: "The Family of Man Revisited: Photography in a Global Age"
Gerd Hurm, Anke Reitz, Shamoon Zamir (ed.), 2018
Book in English.
With contributions by Winfried Fluck, Ulrike Gehring, Gerd Hurm, Martin Jay, Miles Orvell, Anke Reitz, Eric Sandeen, Kerstin Schmidt, Werner Sollors and Shamoon Zamir. 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 t...

Educational kit
around the collections
We are working on our educational material. Do not hesitate to contact us for a special or personalized guided tour.
The Family of Man: fom@cna.etat.lu
The Bitter Years: visites@cna.etat.lu For special programs and guided tours within the frame of the Vision LAB, please contact Mylène Carrière (tel.: +352 52 24 24 702).