The Family of Man was a photography exhibition created by Edward Steichen first shown in 1955 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Held at the Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition consisted of 508 photographs from sixty-eight countries. The photographers who took part included Dorothea Lange, Robert Capra, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Jack Delano, Margaret Bourke-White, Esther Bubley, Bert Hardy, Edward Weston, Matthew Brady, Frank Scherschel, Wayne Miller, Eva Arnold, Irving Penn, Consuelo Kanaga, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Bill Brandt, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Ben Shahn and Marion Palfi, The professed aim of the exhibition was to mark "essential oneness of mankind throughout the world."
During the time it was open, the Family of Man became the most popular exhibition in the history of photography, and the most successful exhibition in the history of photography.
By the end of its world tour in 1961, it was estimated that The Family of Man exhibition had been seen, in person by 9 million people.
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