Family of Man 2 – Frederic Pascual with 2 photos within the top 100 of the Family of man 2
Family of Man 2 – Frederic Pascual with 2 photos within the top 100 of the Family of man 2
In 1955 Edward Steichen launched a photographic project called The Family of Man. The exhibit travelled all over the world, and consisted of over 500 images of humanity taken by over 270 photographers, some famous, and some unknown. Steichen and his helpers had an image datebase of over 2 million photographs from which they selected 10,000 before choosing the final exhibit of just over 500.
The Leica Users Group are a large internet family of like-minded people, who all share the joy and interest of using Leica cameras. Leicas have been associated with fine human and journalistic photography since the 1920s, and in 1954 - the year preceding the Family of Man exhibition - released their seminal camera, the M3, the design of which is still seen today in the M7.
This project is being developed:
1. To celebrate the beginning of the new Millenium,
2. To re-look at humanity through photographic eyes 50 years after Steichen's exhibition, but this time in a prospective project, and
3. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Leica M camera system.
The project ran from 1999 to 2005, with a yearly contest and selection of images for inclusion in an eventual travelling exhibition for the year 2006.
Thank you for your interest.
