Section
Eating and everyday life
Shared meals and the rituals of daily life are a recognizable motif in the exhibition’s mid-flow sequence.1
The scholarship for this cluster in our repo is currently thin. “Eating and everyday life” is not named as a discrete theme by MoMA’s archives-highlights summary nor separately called out in the CNA education portal’s listed themes (both of which we consulted on 2026-04-19); it is included here because it is widely recognized as a recurring grouping in the 1955 catalog’s photo sequence. Treat the cluster as provisional: it may be merged into a neighboring cluster or dropped entirely once the catalog’s interior is consulted page-by-page.
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The Family of Man, Edward Steichen (ed.), MoMA, 1955 —
src-moma-1955-catalog. ↩