European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 23, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Eugene Smith took this candid shot of american Small vice president exhibition f f Edward Steichen selected 503 pictures from 68 lands for panoramic exhibition of human race a photographic exhibition called the family of Man which took Edward Steichen three years to create opens in the House of German handicraft at the Frankfurt fair this display of photographic Art about Man in relation to his environment and to the Earth which he has was first shown in 1935 at the museum of modern Art in new York since then it has circulated around the world and is now on its second tour of West the exhibitions visit to where it will stay five was arranged by America House and cultural Board of by Ernie staff writer who has lived and travelled with a camera which has recorded what his philosophers Eye has observed during his lifetime said it was a tremendous task when he and his assistants selected the 503 photographs from the 68 countries soviet Russia and from the two million pictures we selected pictures that ran the Gamut of life from birth and the daily relationship Between Man and his family and the Community and world in which he Steichen sex there Are probably no better words to describe the theme and the purpose of the photography essay than the prolong which was show by cart and the climates have meanings for meanings we Are alike in All noun tries and tribes a trying read what land and sea say to and Ever w ate on Watt cents in need of Foody clothing sleep front the tropics to the Arctic humanity lives these needs so inexorably this a camera a drama the grand of humanity Here is the family of Mant 12 the stars and stripes