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Family Man instaling1/12/2024 The way he conceived a scenography with pictures interacting the ones with the others and having an impact on those who admired them was somewhat reminiscent of the Kuleshov effect. Indeed, he himself described The Family of Man as a movie in which the mobile component was not the picture but the visitor. What Steichen owed to the cinema in his work for the exhibition is essential. ![]() The photograph was one of the biggest of the exhibition and the text next to it with it was directly drawn from the declaration. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that the epilogue of the exhibition was displaying a picture of the United Nations General Assembly as if to highlight the essential character of the democratic institutions for peacekeeping. The very nature of the approach taken by Steichen for The Family of Man was so similar to the United Nations Declaration that the theorist Ariella Azoulay described the exhibition as a visual declaration of the human rights, even more since the 1955 press release for the opening of the exhibition at the MoMA was announcing “ an exhibition of creative photography dedicated to the dignity of man”. It asserted access to a fair and equal treatment, the right to live in peace, to be educated, to marry and found a family, to own property and be able to protect it, to say freely one’s ideas and one’s opinions, to believe or not to believe in a religion, to take part in the life of one’s country, to circulate freely, to work and get a just remuneration, to rest and have leisure time… This text defines the great aspects of life that are universally shared by men all over the world. ![]() After the trauma of the Second World War, this text outlined the fundamental rights to which all men and women were entitled, without any distinction and with recognition of the inherent dignity of all members of the human family. In 1948 the Member States of the United Nations proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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