Call for Memories of 'The Family of Man' Photo Exhibition (1955–2025)
Citation
C²DH and CNA Luxembourg (FoMLEG project). “Call for Memories of ‘The Family of Man’ Photo Exhibition (1955–2025).” Posted on ArtHist.net: Network for Art History. URL: https://arthist.net/archive/50955 (accessed 2026-04-30 via search results).
Tier justification
Tier 2: formal research call posted on ArtHist.net (the established network for art history announcements, hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science), originating from the C²DH/CNA FoMLEG research project. The call is an institutional research document, not a blog post. It provides the formal project description and scope of the FoMLEG crowdsourcing campaign, with methodological detail about the research approach.
Relevance
The FoMLEG crowdsourcing call serves three distinct functions for this project: (1) it provides the most methodologically explicit public description of the FoMLEG research programme, including its interdisciplinary framework (‘visual studies, decolonial studies, intergenerational memory production, translation and reception studies, and transnational media history’); (2) it confirms the official dates of the world tour as ‘1955–1963’ in the project’s own framing; (3) it confirms that the exhibition was also shown in ‘Luxembourg City, Esch-sur-Alzette, and Clervaux since 1975’ — providing the first mention in this session of the Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette domestic showings, which precede the Clervaux permanent installation.
Key excerpts / pages
- Project framing (search result, 2026-04-30): ‘The FoMLEG (The Legacy of “The Family of Man”) is a research and transmedia project launched by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and the Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA) with a Crowdsourcing Campaign seeking photos, stories, and memories connected to the seminal photography exhibition.’
- World tour dates (search result, 2026-04-30): ‘visited the exhibition during its original World Tour (1955–1963).’
- Luxembourg venues (search result, 2026-04-30): ‘saw it in Luxembourg City, Esch-sur-Alzette, or Clervaux since 1975.’
- Methodological scope (search result, 2026-04-30): ‘interdisciplinary approach combining visual studies, decolonial studies, intergenerational memory production, translation and reception studies, and transnational media history.’
Notes
- The ArtHist.net archive page was NOT directly fetched this round — URL returned in search results (2026-04-30) but Chrome navigation was denied. All content from search-engine excerpts only. Verified: false.
- The mention of Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette showings ‘since 1975’ is new information not recorded in
research/world-tour.md; it suggests pre-Clervaux domestic Luxembourg venues. This should be flagged for investigation in a future session — the CNA may hold records of these showings. - The world tour end date ‘1963’ (not 1962, 1964, or 1965) is the FoMLEG project’s own framing; this adds a fourth institutional data point to the three already documented in
research/world-tour.md(1962, 1964, 1965). The discrepancy remains unresolved. - A future pass should: fetch the ArtHist.net page directly; confirm the full text of the call; extract the FNR grant number cited in the project description; and note any named advisory board members or partner archives.