MPS 301 Lecture : HistoryofPhotographyJan25.docx
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1956 steichen became the curator at the museum of modern art. Family of man exhibition was one of the largest and most viewed. This exhibition was written about in an article in 1958. The exhibition was about being all alike. Shown many portraits to depict the many different kinds of people. Wants to depict how everyone poses the same way and has the same bland expression. Takes 2 million down to 10 thousand and then down to 503 photos. The exhibition opened in 1955 and then divided between 10 sets and began to travel the world. This was to formulate a different point of view. All of the photographs had a clear different identify state as to how they identified the population. Then studied painting for quite a while to later return with his wife to the us. Stayed for a year photographing couldn"t stop photographing and then was refused to publish these this in the.
