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1612-6041
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In 1967, an exhibition opened in East Berlin that proposed, through an overload of images, to unite the histories of the Soviet Union and the GDR, and to confront international photography exhibitions produced in the United States and West Germany. More than the design principles and methods of this show, entitled Vom Glück des Menschen or On the Happiness of People, directly connect it with Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition, first presented at MoMA in New York in 1953. Its original title was in fact The Socialist Family of Man, and its designers addressed Steichen’s show directly with a scathing critique that echoes the critical discourse in general around The Family of Man. Ultimately, and despite the acknowledged relationship of the exhibition to its Western model, Vom Glück des Menschen also departed from it, crafting a narrative through photographs specifically designed for a socialist society under construction.
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Zeithistorische Forschungen, Potsdam : Zentrum für Zeithist. Forschung, 2004, 12(2015), 2, Seite 370-382, 1612-6041
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volume:12
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year:2015
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number:2
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pages:370-382
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Goodrum, Sarah A socialist Family of Man 2015
Language:
English
Keywords:
Maahs, Rita
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Schnitzler, Karl-Eduard von 1918-2001
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Fotografie
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Ausstellung
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Geschichte 1963-1967
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DOI:
10.14765/zzf.dok-1451
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Schnitzler, Karl-Eduard von 1918-2001
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Maahs, Rita