[Review of] Eric J. Sandeen. Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America
Citation
Miller, Douglas T. [Review of] Eric J. Sandeen, Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. The American Historical Review 102, no. 1 (February 1997): 218.
Relevance
The peer-reviewed reception of Sandeen 1995 in the leading American historical journal. The review’s placement in AHR — the flagship journal of the American Historical Association — confirms Sandeen’s book as a significant scholarly intervention crossing the disciplinary boundary between photographic history and cultural/political history of the 1950s. A Tier-2 anchor for any claim that Sandeen’s analysis received peer-community validation.
Cross-reference to src-sandeen-1995 (reviewed work; the anchor for all 1990s FoM reception claims).
Key excerpts / pages
- Access status (2026-04-30): The Oxford Academic abstract page (
https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/102/1/218/170528) is confirmed as existing by a WebSearch that returned the URL and title. The page itself was attempted but WebFetch returned a permission denial; the URL was NOT fetched in this round. Body text NOT consulted. - Reviewer name (Douglas T. Miller, Michigan State University), journal (American Historical Review), volume (102), issue (1), year (1997), and page (218) derived from a WebSearch result that surfaced this metadata directly from Oxford Academic. This search-result metadata is treated as a pointer, not as a verified fetch of the Oxford page itself.
- No verbatim text from the review quoted; full text is behind institutional paywall.
Notes
- The reviewer is identified in the search result as Douglas T. Miller of Michigan State University. This attribution is from a search-result snippet, NOT from a direct fetch of the Oxford Academic page. Treat as provisional until the page is fetched.
verified: false: Oxford Academic page not fetched (permission denied). Bibliographic metadata (vol., issue, page, reviewer name) derived from search-result snippet only.- For the companion Journal of American Studies review (vol. 30, 1996), see
src-jas-1996-review-sandeen. - The AHR review’s existence (vol. 102, no. 1, p. 218) was also noted — with the same metadata — in the pre-existing entry
src-sandeen-1995(notes section), which cites it from “Oxford Academic.” That prior citation was not verified against a fetched source in that prior round either; both this entry and that note carry the same caveat.