Source
Herbert List
Citation
Herbert List. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-09 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_List.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Used here strictly to record day-month tokens (7 October 1903 / 4 April 1975), the explicit Family of Man attribution including plate-level identification (the 1950 Glyptothek-in-Munich photograph), and the Magnum-via-Capa entry-pathway.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim claims from the article (fetched 2026-05-09):
- Day-tokens (rendered as separate categorical strings in the fetched HTML): “7 October 1903” appears twice on the page; “4 April 1975” appears twice on the page.
- Capa / Magnum invitation (verbatim): “In 1951, List met [Robert Capa], who invited him to work as a contributor to [Magnum], but he rarely accepted assignments.”
- Italian period (verbatim): “For the next decade he produced copious work in Italy. During this time he also started using a [35 mm film] camera and a [telephoto lens]. He was influenced by his Magnum colleague [Henri Cartier-Bresson] as well as the [Italian neorealist] film movement.”
- Family-of-Man inclusion (verbatim, plate-level identification): “List’s 1950 picture of a woman, her black dress spread about her, reclining at a respectable distance from an elderly man reading, with one leg of his trousers rolled above his socks and garter, both enjoying the spring sunshine on the front steps of the [Glyptothek] in Munich, was selected by curator [Edward Steichen] for the world-touring [Museum of Modern Art] exhibition [The Family of Man], seen by 9 million visitors.”
- Recognition (verbatim): “In 1964 List was awarded the [David Octavius Hill] Prize of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner.”
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is treated as a pointer source. The 7 October 1903 / 4 April 1975 day-month tokens are not corroborated against any second source fetched in this round; remain pointer-only. The 1903 / 1975 year-only resolution is independently anchored at Tier 1 by the Magnum Photos profile (src-magnum-herbert-list); the year-tokens are not in dispute. - Wikipedia is the only source consulted in this round that names The Family of Man explicitly on Herbert List’s biography page. The plate-level identification (the 1950 Glyptothek photograph in Munich) is precise enough to map to photo-0293 (the single Herbert List plate in FoM per strict-match grep) but the photograph-attribution mapping should NOT be promoted to a print-record claim without a fetched MoMA installation-print or Master-Checklist entry that names the photograph by title — the Master Checklist (src-moma-exh-0569-master-checklist, in repo) prints the entry with photographer + agency + nationality + dimensions only, not a title. Carried as suggestive only.
- The Magnum-via-Capa-invitation 1951 detail is independently corroborated at Tier 1 by src-magnum-herbert-list, which records List as a “contributor” rather than a full Magnum member.
- The single FoM plate count is verified by strict-match grep against
data/photographs.csv(2026-05-09): photo-0293 (Section 25 Relationships, Germany).