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Beyond the Family

Brill | Fink, München 2012 Tier 2 Unverified Accessed 2026-05-20 View source ↗

Citation

Kröncke, Meike, Axel Pfeifer, and Claudia Althaus. Beyond the Family. München: Brill Fink, 2012. ISBN: 978-3-7705-5374-7 (print), 978-3-8467-5374-3 (electronic). DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846753743.

Tier justification

Tier 2: monograph published by Brill Fink, an academic press (imprint of Brill, a major European scholarly publisher). The book is primarily in German, published in the Brill Fink München imprint. The “Reframing the Family Romance” chapter has a dedicated CrossRef DOI (10.30965/9783846753743_006), confirming the book’s academic registration.

Relevance

The monograph examines family photography and its cultural frameworks in postwar German and international visual culture, with a dedicated chapter “Reframing the Family Romance” (DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_006) that engages the tradition from which The Family of Man emerged and to which it contributed. Other chapters in the book address the exhibition context: “Kulturelle Rahmungen: Veränderungen im Diskurs der Fotografie” (Cultural Framings: Changes in the Discourse of Photography), “Picturing Families,” and analyses of specific photobooks (Ruth Erdt, Nan Goldin). This book provides German-language scholarly context for the reception of family photography as a genre — the explicit visual and ideological field that The Family of Man claimed to represent. It complements src-james-2012-post-fascist (which focuses on the exhibition’s reception in West Germany specifically) with a broader analysis of the family-photography genre.

Key excerpts / pages

Metadata confirmed from two session-fetched sources (2026-05-20):

  1. CrossRef book-level API (https://api.crossref.org/works/10.30965/9783846753743, fetched 2026-05-20):
    • Title: “Beyond the Family”
    • Authors: Meike Kröncke (first), Axel Pfeifer (additional), Claudia Althaus (additional)
    • Publisher: Brill Fink
    • Published (print): 2012-01-01
    • DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743
    • ISBN (print): 978-3-7705-5374-7; ISBN (electronic): 978-3-8467-5374-3
    • Type: monograph
  2. CrossRef chapters API (filter: container-title:Beyond+the+Family, fetched 2026-05-20): 15 chapter entries confirmed, including:
    • “Reframing the Family Romance” (Kröncke, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_006)
    • “Picturing Families” (Kröncke, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_007)
    • “Kulturelle Rahmungen: Veränderungen im Diskurs der Fotografie” (Kröncke, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_005)
    • “Ruth Erdt: The Gang (Schweiz, 2001)” (Kröncke, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_009)
    • “Nan Goldin: The Devil’s Playground (USA, 2003)” (Kröncke, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_011)
    • “Einleitung” [Introduction] (Kröncke, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_002)
    • “Ausstellungskataloge & Fotobücher” [Exhibition Catalogues & Photobooks] (bibliography chapter, DOI: 10.30965/9783846753743_015)
  3. OpenLibrary search for ISBN 978-3-7705-5374-7 (fetched 2026-05-20): confirmed title “Beyond the Family”, author Meike Kröncke, publication date “Jul 01, 2012”.

No body-text quotations recorded. The Brill publisher page (https://brill.com/display/title/57374) returned HTTP 405 this round; body text not accessed.

Notes

  • Verified: false — book metadata confirmed via CrossRef and OpenLibrary; body text not read (Brill paywall / HTTP 405, 2026-05-20).
  • Language: primarily German (de), with chapters bearing German titles; at least one chapter title in English (“Reframing the Family Romance” and “Picturing Families”). Language of body text not confirmed from what was fetched.
  • This title is distinct from src-hurm-reitz-zamir-2018 (The Family of Man Revisited), which addresses the exhibition directly. Beyond the Family approaches the exhibition’s visual milieu from the genre perspective (family photography), providing structural rather than event-specific analysis.
  • The “family romance” framing in the chapter title (“Reframing the Family Romance”) echoes Freudian / psychoanalytic approaches to family imagery, a strand of critique that postwar German scholarship brought to the exhibition. No specific claim about Kröncke’s argument is recorded here beyond what the chapter title implies.
  • Perspective: German-language visual culture / family photography / postwar media. Publisher: Brill Fink (München imprint of Brill, the Dutch scholarly publisher).
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