The Family of Man's Lasting Legacy: Insights into Photography, Cold War Dynamics, and Heritage Preservation
Citation
C²DH, University of Luxembourg. “The Family of Man’s Lasting Legacy: Insights into Photography, Cold War Dynamics, and Heritage Preservation.” C²DH News, October 2024. URL: https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/news/the-family-of-man-lasting-legacy/.
Tier justification
Tier 2: institutional news article from the C²DH (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg). Published at the launch of the FoMLEG research project, this article provides the institutional public announcement of the project, including its research questions, collaborating institutions (C²DH and CNA), funding body (FNR), and lead researchers.
Relevance
The launch announcement for the FoMLEG project (announced October 22, 2024), providing the public-facing description of the research programme’s aims and the first institutional confirmation of the collaboration between the C²DH and the CNA. Important as the dateable starting point for the FoMLEG project’s public footprint, and as the source that names the FNR (Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg) as the funding body.
Key excerpts / pages
- Page directly fetched 2026-05-07.
- Page title: “The Family of Man’s Lasting Legacy: Insights into Photography, Cold War Dynamics, and Heritage Preservation.” Published by C²DH on 22 October 2024.
- Tour scope (verbatim, 2026-05-07): the article states the exhibition “would go beyond the Iron Curtain (Poland and the USSR) and to several countries in the Global South.” It also states that the exhibition “toured 37 countries” and lists regions visited as “North America, Europe, and East Asia (Japan and South Korea)” plus “Guatemala, Chile, South Africa, Egypt, Afghanistan” and “India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, Lebanon, Syria.”
- The article does NOT provide specific venue names or dates for India, Paris, or Berlin. It is at the level of country and region only.
- The C²DH-stated total of “37 countries” matches the figure circulating in secondary literature (which is unanchored to a primary archival source — see
research/world-tour.md§3). - Research project description (paraphrased, not direct quote): the FoMLEG project under Emilia Sánchez González aims to analyse the international reception by studying “archival material (letters, visitor books, newspapers)”; detailed findings have not yet been published as of the article’s date.
Notes
- Direct fetch 2026-05-07. This entry was previously documented as content-from-search-engine-only; the page was successfully retrieved via WebFetch on 2026-05-07.
- The C²DH page is the most institutionally credible secondary source so far seen that endorses the “37 countries” figure. It does not, however, cite a primary archival source for that figure. The figure remains unanchored to NARA RG 306 or to any USIA exhibition log fetched in this project.
- The tour-scope listing here is broader than the CNA education portal’s nine-country sample — adding Sri Lanka, Indonesia, the Philippines, Laos, Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Chile, South Korea, and Poland to the list. Most of these are NOT in the CNA list (which had India, Russia, France, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Australia). Together the two CNA-family lists give a fuller (still incomplete) sample of countries visited.
- This is the institutional announcement of FoMLEG; the project page itself is at
src-c2dh-fomleg. Both entries are needed because the announcement article (2024) and the project page (continuously updated) serve different bibliographic functions — the former is a time-stamped institutional record; the latter is the live project description. - A future pass should directly fetch this page to confirm the FNR grant number, the full project description as announced, and any named advisory board members or external partners.