Illustrations (including front cover), photographs.
The Family of Man photographic exhibition was initiated in New York at the Museum of Modern Art in 1955 and later traveled to 61 countries under the auspices of the United States Information Agency. The exhibition opened in Johannesburg in August 1958. In this article the author describes the presentation of the exhibition, its reception, and the ideas of the photographer Allan Sekula (who had criticized the exhibition in his 1981 article "Traffic in Photographs" as propaganda promoting American values and culture abroad). She uses the political and cultural context of South Africa in 1958 to discuss humanist photography from the perspective of a country from the "Global South": "By regarding the Family of Man from a different vantage point - both geographically and conceptually - we can expand the discussion of the politics and poetics of humanist photography"-p. 36.
See African Art Vertical Files, VF -- Photography, for vertical file copy at AFA.
