‘The Family of Man’ in Belgrade — Open discussion on the history of the exhibition and photography in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s
Citation
Museum of Yugoslavia (Muzej Jugoslavije). “‘The Family of Man’ in Belgrade — Open discussion on the history of the exhibition and photography in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s.” Programs section, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. Page published 2025-08-21 (per JSON-LD datePublished); event date 2025-08-27. Direct fetch 2026-05-09 (cache /.scratch/muzej-jugoslavije-fom-belgrade.html).
Tier justification
Tier 1: the Museum of Yugoslavia is the national-level cultural-heritage institution of Yugoslavia (now under the Republic of Serbia), the institutional successor to the Museum of the History of Yugoslavia. Its Programs page is an institutional-voice publication. The page also documents that the moderator of the discussion was Emilia Sánchez González, the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) PhD candidate whose 2025 article on the FoM world tour is already in the project as src-c2dh-fomleg-world-tour — i.e., the institutional record is being curated in dialogue with the same C²DH research strand that anchored Berlin 1955 and Beirut 1958.
Relevance
Anchors the Belgrade 1957 venue of The Family of Man world tour at Tier-1 institutional level — closing one of the issue #157 Eastern-bloc / Yugoslav-non-aligned targets. Belgrade is the only Yugoslav venue with a dedicated institutional-program page documenting the original 1957 stop. The page sits inside a 2025 program in which the museum revisited the historical exhibition with the C²DH researcher leading the FoM tour-historical work — bringing the Belgrade stop into the same scholarly orbit as the Berlin and Beirut anchors already in this project.
Key excerpts / pages
Direct fetch 2026-05-09. Verbatim from the article body (cache /.scratch/muzej-jugoslavije-fom-belgrade.html):
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Page title (verbatim, h1): “‘The Family of Man’ in Belgrade – Open discussion on the history of the exhibition and photography in Yugoslavia in the 1950s and 1960s”
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Venue and dates (verbatim, body paragraph 1): *“The exhibition The Family of Man, which included 503 photographs by more than 200 photographers from around the world, was conceived by photographer and curator Edward Steichen as a manifesto for peace in the postwar period. It was first presented in January 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, and then toured the world for eight years. **It was shown from January 26 to February 22, 1957, at the Kalemegdan Pavilion Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion.*” (emphasis on venue/date sentence; emphasis added). -
Discussion framing (verbatim, body paragraph 2): “At the open forum, we will reflect on the presentation of the exhibition in Belgrade and raise questions about the exhibition, its audience, and the broader context of the city at that time: Who attended it? Did it influence future art in Yugoslavia? How did the Belgrade edition differ from those in other cities?”
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Moderator credit (verbatim, body paragraph 3): “Moderator of the lecture and discussion: Emilia Sánchez Gonzalez, PhD candidate at the Center for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), University of Luxembourg, researching the international tour of The Family of Man during its global Cold War journey (1955–1963).”
- Page metadata (from JSON-LD in fetched HTML):
datePublishedanddateModifiedboth 2025-08-21T07:47:23+00:00;inLanguageen-US; the page exists in three language versions (English / Serbian Latin / Serbian Cyrillic) cross-linked viahreflang.
Notes
- Venue identification anchored: the Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion (Paviljon Cvijeta Zuzorić) is in Little Kalemegdan park inside the Belgrade Fortress complex. The Kalemegdan Pavilion / Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion identification is consistent with the second independent Belgrade institutional source —
src-belgrade-photo-month-peternek(Belgrade Photo Month, 2016 retrospective announcement) — which also names “Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion” as the 1957 FoM venue. - Exact dates: 26 January – 22 February 1957. (Note: English Wikipedia tour-table fetched 2026-05-09 via
src-wikipedia-fom-tour-listcarries the slightly different “Jan 25 – Feb 22, 1957” with “Kalamegdan Pavilion” mis-spelled — Wikipedia is uncited at the row level, while the Museum of Yugoslavia institutional source gives the dates and venue verbatim and is the higher-tier authority. Use 26 January – 22 February 1957 as the anchored figure.) - Yugoslav-non-aligned context: The Belgrade stop took place in January–February 1957, predating the formal launch of the Non-Aligned Movement (Belgrade Conference, September 1961) but within the Tito-era period of Yugoslav distancing from the Soviet bloc following the 1948 Tito–Stalin split. Yugoslavia is therefore not part of the “Iron Curtain” countries discussed in
src-c2dh-fomleg-lasting-legacy(“beyond the Iron Curtain (Poland and the USSR)”) — the C²DH article does NOT name Yugoslavia in the Iron-Curtain sentence, consistent with the historiographical convention that Tito’s Yugoslavia was outside the Eastern Bloc proper. Belgrade 1957 is therefore best framed as a Yugoslav non-aligned / open-socialist stop rather than an “Eastern bloc” stop in the Soviet-bloc sense. - Independent corroboration: a second institutional source —
src-belgrade-photo-month-peternek, fetched 2026-05-09 from the Belgrade Photo Month festival’s announcement page for the 2016 Tomislav Peternek retrospective at the same Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavilion — names “the ‘Family of Man’ exhibition curated by Edward Steichen, which was exhibited in the ‘Cvijeta Zuzorić Art Pavillion’ in 1957” as a formative influence on a “new, young generation of photographers” in mid-1950s Yugoslavia. This is a second independent Belgrade institutional source naming the same venue and year. - What this source does NOT carry: per-day attendance figures; the Yugoslav sponsoring organisation (the Belgrade page does not name USIS / USIA Belgrade or a Yugoslav cultural ministry); any catalogue / press / printed material from the 1957 stop. The “Who attended it?” question is explicitly listed as an open question for the 2025 forum.
- Cross-reference:
src-belgrade-photo-month-peternek(independent corroboration);src-c2dh-fomleg-world-tour(the C²DH researcher Sánchez González moderates the Belgrade event);src-wikipedia-fom-tour-list(Tier-3 row carries near-identical date range with “Kalamegdan” misspelling);research/world-tour.md§5. - Perspective: institutional, voice of the post-Yugoslav successor museum; framed in 2025 as a re-examination of a Cold-War cultural-diplomacy stop rather than as a reaffirmation of its 1957 framing.