The Family of Man: A Greater Resonance More Than Ever Before
Citation
Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) / Steichen Collections. “The Family of Man: A Greater Resonance More Than Ever Before.” thefamilyofman.education. © 2021 CNA. URL: https://www.thefamilyofman.education/en/historical-context/the-family-of-man-a-greater-resonance-more-than-ever-before. Accessed 2026-04-30.
Relevance
The CNA’s own educational platform historical-context page is a Tier-1 institutional source for the official institutional narrative of the Family of Man collection’s transfer to Luxembourg, the pre-installation tour, and the June 1994 Clervaux inauguration. It provides the CNA’s own account (in English and French) of the donation history (1964), Steichen’s wish for Clervaux, the Toulouse/Tokyo/Hiroshima tour, and the permanent installation. The site was designed by Cropmark and is © 2021 CNA, confirming institutional authorship.
Key excerpts / pages
- Access status (2026-04-30): Page fetched successfully via WebFetch.
- Verbatim, fetched 2026-05-01 (corrected per grounding judge on PR #95 — the earlier draft of this entry inverted the page’s clause order and inserted the connective “following” which does not appear on the page): “After a last showing in Toulouse, France, in Tokyo and in Hiroshima, Japan which welcomed each day up to three thousand persons eager to admire the collection, the exhibition permanently opened at Clervaux Castle in June 1994.”
- Verbatim: “In 1964, at the end of the collection’s journey around the world, the American government presented it as gift to the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.”
- Verbatim (Steichen quote, in Luxembourgish, attributed to a meeting with Grand Duchess Charlotte at the White House in 1963): “Ech sinn e lëtzebuerger Jong” (“I am a boy from Luxembourg”).
- Site attribution: © 2021 CNA; website designed by Cropmark.
- The page does not specify the exact date (day) within June 1994 for the inauguration. It confirms only “June 1994.”
Notes
verified: true: Page fetched successfully (2026-04-30). All verbatim quotes are from the fetched content.- The Steichen quote “Ech sinn e lëtzebuerger Jong” is rendered in Luxembourgish (lb) on the CNA page; the English translation “I am a boy from Luxembourg” is given by the CNA page itself, not added here by inference.
- The CNA gives the donation date as “1964.” Other sources (including the Steichen Collections CNA page, fetched in an earlier round) describe a “1964–1966” donation window. The thefamilyofman.education page uses “1964” only; this discrepancy is noted and should be resolved against primary donation documentation.
- Cross-reference to
src-cna-clervaux-1994-permanent-installation: uses the same institutional source base. - Cross-reference to
src-cna-1992-1994-pretour-toulouse-tokyo-hiroshima: the tour documented on this page. - Cross-reference to
src-sandeen-1995: anchor for the Anglophone scholarly reception contemporary with these events.