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MUSEUM OF MODERN
ART,
NEW
YORK, by
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Modern Art
New
York
countries
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Rangoon, has
belong!
Many
am
newborn baby
same
the
member
in
pitch
"I
am
of the Family."
in sixty-eight
nations round our planet Earth. You travel and see what the camera saw.
wonder
of
human mind,
self saying.
"Tm
heart, wit
The
instinct, is here.
among
and
far,
born into
struggle, blood
toil,
and dreams,
be haunting
me
to
losers, in a
is
say.
"This
understand better."
womb
of super-
navies,
by the
realit\
or illusion of hope.
Hope
is
a sustaining
gift.
Everywhere
to
hope
In a seething of saints
human
of armies,
a startling
and being.
its life
is
love
moon and
the sun.
Though meanings
read what sk\
vary,
we
are alike in
Man
us.
alive
all
we
are on
all
conti-
nents in the need of love, food, clothing, work, speech, worship, sleep, games,
dancing, fun.
so inexorably
From
tropics to arctics
humanity
lives
alike.
Hands here, hands gnarled as thorntree roots and others soft as faded rose
Hands reaching, praying and groping, hands holding tools, torches,
brooms, fishnets, hands doubled in fists of flaring anger, hands moving in
caress of beloved faces. The hands and feet of children playing ring-aroundleaves.
little
ones alike
in
playing
same game.
the
Here are
and
set forth
Then
(juestioniiig.
as
all
tools,
parallels
weapons,
cattle, as
toil. fish,
likeness.
The
And like him the latest man of our day has his tools, weapons, cattle. The earliest
man struggled through inexpressibly dark chaos of hunger, fear, violence, sex.
A long journey it has been from that early Family of Man to the one of today
which has become a
the
human
face
fateful registrations.
tell
still
is
more prodigious
spectacle.
"the masterpiece of
God"
it
is
Some
of eternity and others only the latest tattlings. Child faces of blossom smiles
or mouths of hunger are followed bv homely faces of majesty carved and worn
bv
love,
in a late
light
to
go
crooked and
in
lost
and
crowds.
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dumbshow mockery
kill,
later.
Some
of
them are
blue sky or faces dark with storm winds and lashing night rain. And faces
beyond forgetting, written over with faiths in men and dreams of man sur-
passing himself.
ing
human
An
faces.
In the times to
come
some would
reply.
in the hearts of
be of the Family of
if
Man
you
There
and
There
only one
is
his
name
is
is
only one
and
is
is
man
All
in the
world
Men.
woman
All
in the
world
Women.
the child's
name
is
All Children.
QuJ
SctU ^luA^i ^
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Introduction by
Edward
Steichen
believe
Museum
world,
of
is
the
the
attempted.
The
exhibition,
and of explaining
man
to
man.
is
It
We
life
from birth
to death with
life
as
a mirror of
the world.
gamut of
man
mankind throughout
all
community and
to the
world we
live
in-
to the university,
Photographs of the home in all its warmth and magnificence, its heartaches
and exaltations. Photographs of the individual and the familv unit in its re-
''s
in relation to his
human
burial.
and richness of the earth he has inherited and what he has done with
inheritance, the
religions.
this
things.
With basic
with man's dreams and aspirations and photographs of the flaming creative
forces of love and truth and the corrosive evil inherent in the
lie.
For almost three years we have been searching for these images. Over two
million photographs from every corner of the earth have come to us from
individuals, collections,
Then came
from
6(5
files.
We
countries.
are amateurs
of
and
and
mv
Miller,
a.ssistant,
The Family
and
faith in
Wavne
of
Man
and the
tireless
devotion of our
Caroline Hommarskioltj
women
efforts
staff.
man.
Liie
and
his heart
to
me
was going
and yes
res I said yes
res I
so he could feel
like
my
breasts all
perfume yes
mad
will Yes.
James Joyce
life
liaiv.
Gotthard Schuh
New
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Guinea
Laurence LeGuay
U.S.A. Roy
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Miller
Life
17
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U.S.A. Paul
Himmei
IH
Magnui
Japan. Hideo
Hoga
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Arctic
Richard HGrringlon
Thtee Lions
U.S.A.
22
Wovne
Millet
U.S.A.
Wayne
Miller
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Euripides
Millci
25
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Moore
Magnum
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Japon
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Otoki
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bones,
U.S.A.
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Miller
Genesis 2:23
Il
U-S.A. Irving Penn
USA.
Vogue
Nell Dorr
Siberio. Sovfolo
Black Star
28
Arctic.
Richard Harrington
Three L<ons
Guatemala.
U.S-S.R, R
Dioment
Moscow
Lisa Lorsen
Journolrsrs
C/ub
Life
China
Chiun
ii.i
29
India, Satyaiit
Ray
30
Vogue
Austria.
Ted Castle
Mognum_ AF5C
Magnu
Vogu&
31
She
is
tree
of
life to
them
Proverbs 3:18
33
India. Erie
34
Schwab
UN
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Life
The
And
little
ones leaped,
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echoed
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35
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Shirlev Burden
A Edward Steichen
Moqnum.
Life
39
U.S.A.
Edward Wollowltch
USA.
Rurh Oft.n
Englond.
Bill
Btondl
41
USA
42
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Lee
Bureou of M.ne
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U.S.A.
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West
U.S.S.R. A. Uzlyan
Indies.
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George
Silk
Lile
Vogue
USA
Moftho Kitchen
and
55
Sicily. Vito
56
Fiorenza
Jopon,
Carl Mydans
Li7e
57
58
Life
L./e
59
New
Inte.
Before
me peaceful,
Behind me peaceful.
Under me peaceful.
Over me peaceful,
All around
60
me peaceful
Navajo Indian
Li/e
U.S.A.
Life
Homer Page
U.S.S.R. Robert
Capo
Lodtes'
Home
Journal
61
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The land
is
63
Magnum
Japan. Shizuo
Yomamoto
Life
Liie
Irelond
USA. Edword
Clorl
Magnum,
Life
Lodies'
Home
USA.
Journal
Farm
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Life
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72
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Dmitri Kessel
Life
Bofivio,
Guslov Thorlichen
Magnum, Argosy
U.S.A.
Homer Poge
Argosy
bloik Sioi
73
Bolivio.
Marcos Chomude^
Magnum
U.S. A
Homer Page
Argosy
Li/e
74
Wales, Frank Scherschel
Lile
U.S.A. Sfeinheimer
L-fe
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would perish
Bhagavad-Gita
Life
Life
U.S.A.
Wovne
Miller
L/(e
78
Fortune
doest.
Deuteronomy 14:29
79
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Palesiine
David Duticon
Liie
Austria. Emit
USA.
Dorothea
Lai
USA.
Obrovsky
Simpson Kalisher
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94
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Cooke
Life
and know
Robert
Copo
Japan.
Magnum
Gorky, U.S.S.R.
he thoughts
of men
Hiroshi
Homayo
Sovfolo
in other lands
John Masefield
Life
95
ain.
Ralph Morse
Lite
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and
the breeze
St. -John
Perse
97
U.S.A. BorbofQ
U.S.S.R- N, Kolli
Sovfoto
Morgan
U.S.A.
Sam
Folk
New
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Times
U.S-A
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McCombe
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102
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U.S.A.
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Bell
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104
Germany. Rudolf Busier
Ins'ifur iur
6i(d;ourno/(smus
New
in laughter
and
tears.
Kabir
105
Portugal, Sabine Weiss
Raphu Ouiilumeue
Scolland
Han5 W.ld
;.,fe
106
Btack Star
Switzerland
Jakob Tuggener
UNESCO
107
Pix
108
Missouri. Arthur
Wifmonn
Dispatch
109
And
Life
down
ftopho Guillumeite
to eat
and
to drink,
U.S.A.
and
George
Slrock
rose
FoUune
up
to
play.
Exodus 32:6
Son Froncisco
Wavne
Miller
Life
Weekend Magazine
#
Brozil.
Leonli Planskov
0-'
Borneo.
Heddo Morrison
Hungoff, VVerng:
Biiiiol
Comero
Pre;
Magnum
Life
U.S.A. Nick De
Morgoh
Vogue
Liie
Lile
Fronce.
Nora Dumos
Rapho
Guillurr^
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Life
Brozil.
116
Leonri Planskoy
U.S.A. Horry
Kirghiz Republic.
U.S.S.R.
Lapow
Sovtolo
<
Life
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/iFriugrond
118
BfOiiimon Ai>w^iJ/t
Life
Lt/e
Liie
McCombe
Lite
119
But such
that all
it
is
asks,
and
all
it
wants,
of
is
truth.
the liberty
of appearing.
Thomas Paine
Lii
Italy.
Palestine
John Phillips
David Seymour
Life
Mognum,
UNESCO
Polond.
Romon Vishnioc
India.
J.
De Ptetro
Lodies'
Home
Journof
Univ. of California.
G/amou
Otfo Hagei
fortune
Lile
the wise
man
is
no
little,
limit to dimensions.
Lao-tse
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Institute for
Lile
Life
Institute for
Ernst
Hoos
Magnum, Vogue
125
Lite
U.S.A.
Inst, for
Fijen;'a>.d
W. Eugene Smith
Life
Life
Magnum
128
Pop^c Ou:lhimelle
USA,
Alfred Eisenstoedl
Lile
Montaigne
U.S.A.
Woyne
Miller
forfune
US
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US. A. W.
C. Rouhauser
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130
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De Corova
Magnum
U.S.A. Ed^vQtd
Weiton
Picture Pos(
Fortune
Life
U.S.A.
Guy
Gillelle
'/uin
Bracfcmon Assotia'es
Untied Nations
Germonv. Herbert
List
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Time
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Lite
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USA
Victor Jorgensen
Scope
Lile
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Model
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Cooke
Life
144
am
my
heart ...
Lui chi
India.
146
Margofcl Bourko-White
Life
heart.
147
U.S.A.
148
W. Eugene
Smith
L.le
Jamoica. George
Silk
Lile
Greece. D. Horrissiode^
Liie
Indio. Gitel
Steed
What
150
is
virgii
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is
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India.
Williom Vandivefl
Chino. George
India.
Werner
Sillt
Blschof
152
Life
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U.S.A.
Homer Page
156
Magnum. Holiday
is
impenetrable
to
itself
as the highest
wisdom and
Albert Einstein
Ropho
Guillvineit
Magnum
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England.
Bill
Brandl
160
Life
161
U.S.A. A. Morshak
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U.S. A
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USA.
Esther Bublev
Still
Hrmmel
todies'
Home
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Sevenfeen
really
good
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USA,
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Rapho GuillumeUe
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Israel.
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Humanity
We
166
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outraged in
me and
with me.
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love.
George Sand
167
USA
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Miller
the
Ladiei'
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mind
Journal
is restless,
USA
Polfl
turbulent, strong
168
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and unyielding
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Indonesia
John Floreo
is
on
my
side?
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Homer Page
Life
of justice
As
forget what
to
human
frailty
Sir
172
A.
Bob Schwolberg
in
goodness
is.
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Talfourd
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U.S.A.
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Folk
New
know no
Thomas
Jefferson
174
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it! It is
very sacred.
treat
it
as such
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Chtno.
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Turlev
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Okomoto
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Phillips
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Cooke
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