PHOTOGRAPHY AND CITIZENSHIP : THE ART AND POLITICS OF THE FAMILY OF MAN (ENG) savoir-faire

PHOTOGRAPHY AND CITIZENSHIP : THE ART AND POLITICS OF THE FAMILY OF MAN (ENG) savoir-faireA decade after the end of World War II, Edward Steichen gathered some 500 photographs from around the world for an exhibition that modeled a cosmopolitan citizenship for a global populace struggling to rebuild a world still in ruins. A renowned photographer himself, Steichen worked as a curator artist and combined the forms of modernist art and popular address to reimagine the art and role of photography. The Family of Man opened at the Museum of

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son pays de naissance et de résidence

the book transforms a practical guide into an interactive object

tissée d’ambiguïtés

je me suis familiarisé avec ces meutes de chiens errants

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Soth a dépouillé ces images de leur contexte d'actualité afin de mettre en évidence le désir de connexion à leur racine

Human imprint persists in both the imagery of the skateboarders caught merging with their imminent environment and the detail of its presentation

allant jusqu’à évoquer parfois le minéral ou le végétal

comme l'illustre la correspondance avec Andrea Ancira

elle nous semble douce et l’on devine des visages humanisés

images and ceramics from Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto Renowned artist and writer Edmund de Waal (born 1964) meets acclaimed Danish ceramist Axel Salto (1889–1961)