Author : Edward Steichen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0671554115
The family of man
Edward Steichen
Family Of Man
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The Family of Man
Edward Steichen
Author : Edward Steichen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : 0671554123
The Family of Man by Edward Steichen Pdf
The Family of Man Revisited
Gerd Hurm,Anke Reitz,Shamoon Zamir
Author : Gerd Hurm,Anke Reitz,Shamoon Zamir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000211696
The Family of Man Revisited by Gerd Hurm,Anke Reitz,Shamoon Zamir Pdf
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.
Picturing an Exhibition
Eric J. Sandeen
Author : Eric J. Sandeen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Photography
ISBN : UOM:39015035017782
Picturing an Exhibition by Eric J. Sandeen Pdf
Eric Sandeen presents here the first in-depth study of the exhibit and its influence worldwide. He examines how the exhibit came to be assembled, the beliefs and background Edward Steichen brought to the project, and what he wanted to show about the human condition from his selection of images. He then looks at the politics and culture of the 1950s to determine why the show was so popular at the time.
Silver Skin
Joan Lennon
Author : Joan Lennon
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780857908476
Silver Skin by Joan Lennon Pdf
Skara Brae, Orkney, during the Neolithic period. The sun is dying, crops are failing and the local inhabitants fear that the end of the world is near. When a strange boy appears from nowhere, dressed in an odd silver suit - his 'silver skin' - the community is thrown into confusion. Who is he, where is he from, and why has he come? Is he a selkie or seal person, a mythical being believed to have magical powers? For Cait, herself an outsider in the community, the boy, Rab, arouses a strange fascination as she finds herself strangely drawn towards him. For Voy, the Old Woman, Rab represents the only hope for the sun's regeneration, but only if his silver skin is burnt in a huge sacrificial blaze. As the pyre is built, Rab must fight for his life if he is ever to be able to return to his own time. And if he succeeds, what will be the fate of the islanders he will leave behind?
The Children of Men
P. D. James
Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307367716
The Children of Men by P. D. James Pdf
The year is 2021. No child has been born for twenty-five years. The human race faces extinction. Under the despotic rule of Xan Lyppiat, the Warden of England, the old are despairing and the young cruel. Theo Faren, a cousin of the Warden, lives a solitary life in this ominous atmosphere. That is, until a chance encounter with a young woman leads him into contact with a group of dissenters. Suddenly his life is changed irrevocably as he faces agonising choices which could affect the future of mankind. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
The Unemployed Man and His Family
Mirra Komarovsky
Author : Mirra Komarovsky
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759107327
The Unemployed Man and His Family by Mirra Komarovsky Pdf
"In The Unemployed Man and His Family noted sociologist and feminist Mirra Komarovsky poses the question: what happens to the authority of the male head of the family when he fails as a provider? Between 1935 and 1936, Komarovsky interviewed fifty-nine families in which the man had been unemployed for at least a year."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Into the Deep
Robert T. Rogers
Author : Robert T. Rogers
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604827927
Into the Deep by Robert T. Rogers Pdf
On the evening of August 30, 2003, Robert and Melissa Rogers and their four young children were driving home from a family wedding. Caught in a flash flood, Melissa and the children all drowned. Into the Deep is the compelling story of how one man's faith took root and blossomed through trials, blessings, and a deepening trust in God.
Man of the Family
Ralph Moody
Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803281951
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody Pdf
Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Little Britches shoulders the responsibilities of a man at age eleven. Man of the Family continues true pioneering adventures as unforgettable as those in Little Britches and The Fields of Home, also available as Bison Books.
The Man Who Loved Children
Christina Stead
Author : Christina Stead
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453265253
The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead Pdf
“This crazy, gorgeous family novel” written at the end of the Great Depression “is one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century” (Jonathan Franzen, The New York Times). First published in 1940, The Man Who Loved Children was rediscovered in 1965 thanks to the poet Randall Jarrell’s eloquent introduction (included in this ebook edition), which compares Christina Stead to Leo Tolstoy. Today, it stands as a masterpiece of dysfunctional family life. In a country crippled by the Great Depression, Sam and Henny Pollit have too much—too much contempt for one another, too many children, too much strain under endless obligation. Flush with ego and chilling charisma, Sam torments and manipulates his children in an esoteric world of his own imagining. Henny looks on desperately, all too aware of the madness at the root of her husband’s behavior. And Louie, the damaged, precocious adolescent girl at the center of their clashes, is the “ugly duckling” whose struggle will transfix contemporary readers. Named one of the best novels of the twentieth century by Newsweek, Stead’s semiautobiographical work reads like a Depression-era The Glass Castle. In the New York Times, Jonathan Franzen wrote of this classic, “I carry it in my head the way I carry childhood memories; the scenes are of such precise horror and comedy that I feel I didn’t read the book so much as live it.”
Little Britches
Ralph Moody
Author : Ralph Moody
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803281781
Little Britches by Ralph Moody Pdf
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451678185
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury Pdf
Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.
Anchor Man
Steve Farrar
Author : Steve Farrar
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781418568641
Anchor Man by Steve Farrar Pdf
If you thought your parenting responsibilities ended after eighteen years per child, you thought wrong. Instead, it's your privilege to lead your family-and influence succeeding generations-for a century...or more. Anchor Man presents the high calling of fatherhood, the traits of a Christian father, the adventures that await him as he interacts with his children, and the significance of his role as a good family man. Steve Farrar presents these roles and responsibilities in a way any man wanting to increase his understanding of his place in the family, and our society, can put into action every day. Anchor Man encourages, exhorts, and demonstrates with biblical concepts how to raise a godly family and how to anchor that family in Christ for the next one hundred years. Farrar's unique teaching style blends humor and practicality with the tools fathers need to become all that God intended them to be as the leaders of their families. "When a man gets serious about following Christ with his whole heart," Farrar says, "God desires to not only pour out His blessing on that man, but on his children, and his children's children.
Wynn Bullock Photography: a Way of Life
Wynn Bullock,Barbara Bullock-Wilson
Author : Wynn Bullock,Barbara Bullock-Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Photography, Artistic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105031761906
Wynn Bullock Photography: a Way of Life by Wynn Bullock,Barbara Bullock-Wilson Pdf
Public Photographic Spaces
Jorge Ribalta,Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain),Museu Colecção Berardo
Author : Jorge Ribalta,Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain),Museu Colecção Berardo
Publisher : Actar D
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Photography
ISBN : UCSD:31822037388568
Public Photographic Spaces by Jorge Ribalta,Museu d'Art Contemporani (Barcelona, Spain),Museu Colecção Berardo Pdf
This book focuses from a chronological perspective on photography as a tool for a new visuality and the rupture of the role of the spectator: photographic exhibitions from 1928 to 1955, from the spaces designed by Lissitzky's to The Family of Man; the trajectory of utopian architectural-photographic space and from post-Revolutionary Russia to America during the Cold War. This space documents the exhibitions designed by Lissitzky (Pressa, Film und Foto, etc); German, Italian and Spanish exhibitions in the 1930s, and exhibitions in MOMA during the Second World War.