TY  - JOUR
A1  - Goodrum, Sarah
T1  - A Socialist Family of Man. Rita Maahs' and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler's Exhibition Vom Glück des Menschen
T2  - Zeithistorische Forschungen - Studies in Contemporary History
N2  - In 1967, an exhibition opened in East Berlin that proposed, through an overload of images, to unite the histories of the Soviet Union and the GDR, and to confront international photography exhibitions produced in the United States and West Germany. More than the design principles and methods of this show, entitled Vom Glück des Menschen or On the Happiness of People, directly connect it with Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition, first presented at MoMA in New York in 1953. Its original title was in fact The Socialist Family of Man, and its designers addressed Steichen’s show directly with a scathing critique that echoes the critical discourse in general around The Family of Man. Ultimately, and despite the acknowledged relationship of the exhibition to its Western model, Vom Glück des Menschen also departed from it, crafting a narrative through photographs specifically designed for a socialist society under construction.
Y1  - 2015
UR  - https://zeitgeschichte-digital.de/doks/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1451
UR  - https://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2015/5245
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SP  - 370
EP  - 382
PB  - ZZF – Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -