The Family of Man (Anniversary Reprint Edition, c.2000s)
Citation
Steichen, Edward, curator; Sandburg, Carl, prologue. The Family of Man [Anniversary Reprint Edition]. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, [year not confirmed from a source fetched this round]. [ISBN and page count NOT confirmed from a source fetched this round.]
Tier justification
Tier 1: an authorized reprint / anniversary edition of the 1955 MoMA exhibition catalog, which is itself a primary document of the exhibition. The original catalog is listed in CREDIBILITY.md as an explicit Tier-1 source: “The 1955 exhibition catalog (The Family of Man, MoMA, 1955) and its subsequent authorized editions.” This entry documents a post-2000 authorized reprint as one such “subsequent authorized edition.”
Relevance
MoMA has published multiple reprint editions of the 1955 catalog in the post-2000 period. The CNA education platform (https://www.thefamilyofman.education/en/resources/books/, freshly fetched 2026-04-30) lists The Family of Man catalog (author: Edward Steichen, publisher: Museum of Modern Art, New York) with year “2013.” An anniversary edition is commonly cited in 2000s scholarship; the exact edition year and ISBN circulating in the 2000s reception period have NOT been confirmed from any source fetched this round.
Note: the year “2004” was initially assigned as a proxy for “50th anniversary edition” (50th anniversary of 1955 = 2005). Neither “2004” nor “2005” has been confirmed from any fetched source. The YAML year field is left null pending confirmation.
Key excerpts / pages
- Access status (2026-04-30): NOT directly consulted as a bibliographic record. The CNA education page (freshly fetched 2026-04-30) confirms the existence of a post-2000 MoMA reprint (listing year 2013) as a recommended resource. No Internet Archive item found for a specific post-2000 edition. The MoMA website (moma.org) returned 403 for publication-specific pages this round. ISBN not confirmed.
- No text from any post-2000 reprint edition confirmed. No quotations recorded.
Notes
verified: false: year and ISBN NOT confirmed from any fetched source this session. The CNA education page lists “2013” for the catalog, which may indicate the most recent reprint rather than an anniversary edition specifically.- CAUTION: the “50th anniversary” label and “2004” year used in the original task brief entry have NOT been confirmed from any fetched source. Do not assert these without confirmation. The YAML year field is left null until a library catalog or publisher record is fetched.
- The original 1955 MoMA catalog is at
src-moma-1955-catalog. The present entry is a placeholder for one or more post-2000 authorized reprints. - A future pass should: (1) confirm the specific edition year(s) and ISBN(s) for post-2000 MoMA reprints via the MoMA publications catalog or WorldCat; (2) identify any new introductory or contextual material in the relevant edition; (3) note whether the 2013 or other edition framing differs from the 1955 original in ways that bear on the 2000s reception.
- Cross-reference to
src-moma-1955-catalog: the original 1955 edition. - Cross-reference to
src-stimson-2006,src-back-schmidt-linsenhoff-2004: 2000s scholarship that cites the catalog.