The Family of Man [book review]
Citation
[Author not confirmed.] [Review of The Family of Man catalog.] Modern Photography 19, no. 10 (October 1955): 109. Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, Inc. ISSN 0026-8240.
Tier justification
Tier 3: review in a major US photography trade magazine. This is an index-confirmed pointer entry; the actual review text has not been read in this session.
Relevance
This book review — of the Family of Man catalog published by Maco/MoMA — appears in October 1955, after the MoMA exhibition’s close (May 8) and during the period of the catalog’s mass commercial distribution. It represents the photography trade press’s evaluation of the catalog as a publication in its own right, distinct from the March 1955 picture section that covered the exhibition. The October 1955 timing corresponds to the exhibition’s first US tour stops (Chicago, Los Angeles, and other cities in the 1955–56 circuit).
Key excerpts / pages
- Index entry confirmed (fetched 2026-04-30 via
https://archive.org/stream/sim_modern-photography_1955_19_index/sim_modern-photography_1955_19_index_djvu.txt): ‘Family of Man, The — October, page 109’ under the ‘Book Reviews’ section of the 1955 index. - Review text NOT read this round. The October 1955 issue OCR (
sim_modern-photography_1955-10_19_10) was fetched via thearchive.org/stream/path but the text appears truncated and the review at p. 109 was not returned in the accessible portion. - Reviewer name NOT confirmed this round.
Notes
- Archive.org item confirmed 2026-04-30: identifier
sim_modern-photography_1955-10_19_10, Vol. 19, Issue 10, October 1955, Hachette Filipacchi Magazines Inc., ISSN 0026-8240. Item is freely accessible. - Flagged
verified: falsebecause the review text was not read this session, and the reviewer’s name is unknown. - The 1955 Modern Photography annual index (
sim_modern-photography_1955_19_index) is freely accessible and was used to confirm this entry — see the March 1955 feature (src-modern-photography-1955-mar) for fuller notes on the index. - To verify: download the PDF of
sim_modern-photography_1955-10_19_10and read p. 109. Confirm reviewer name, article title (if any), and verbatim quotations. Then update this entry withverified: trueand a direct quotation.