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Roland barthes 19576/21/2023 Steichen was the director of the Museum of Modern Art, Department of Photography. – Barthes, Roland, 1957, The Great Family of Man, Mythologies īarthes’s essay The Great Family of Man from Mythologies, discusses Edward Steichen’s photography exhibition, The Family of Man, which focused on commonalities that unite mankind like “birth, death, work, knowledge, play” (Barthes) etc. Any classic humanism postulates that in scratching the history of men a little, the relativity of their institutions or the superficial diversity of their skins (but why not ask the parents of Emmet Till, the young Negro assassinated by the Whites what they think of The Great Family of Man?)” “This myth of human ‘condition’ rests on a very old mystification, which always consists in placing Nature at the bottom of History.
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