Acclaimed as the most successful and inspiring photography exhibition ever assembled, The Family of Man opened at the Museum of Modern Art in January 1955. This book, the lasting embodiment of Steichen's monumental exhibition, reproduces all 503 images, which he described as “a mirror of the essential unity of humanity throughout the world… Photographs, made in every part of the world, of the range of life from birth to death… Photographs of lovers and marriage and motherhood… Photographs concerning humanity's dreams and aspirations, and photographs of the blazing creative forces of love and truth and the corrosive evil inherent in falsehood.” This is a classic, inspiring work that has remained in print for more than forty years.