Edward Steichen - The Family of Man. MoMA New York - 1955 Museum of Modern Art, New York by the Maco Magazine Corporation, New York. Distributed by Simon and Schuster, New York. 1955. Paperback. 213 x 277 mm. 192 pages. Prologue: Carl Sandburg. Introduction by Edward Steichen. Text in English. True first original printing from 1955 (not to be confused with later printings) in very good condition. The interior is in in excellent condition, taken into account how delicate the thin pages are. No markings, no foxing, no creased pages. Outside a bit darkened and minor signs of handling, but still in very good condition considering the age of the book. Firm binding, no missing parts. The exhibition was edited by the legendary Edward Steichen for the Museum of Modern Art, New York and was showing 503 pictures from 68 countries. Photos by the best photographers of that time: Robert Frank, Nell Dorr, W. Eugene Smith, Edouard Boubat, Harry Callahan, Lee Miller, Edward Steichen, Ruth Orkin, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Sabine Weiss, Helen Levitt, Barbara Morgan, Sandford Roth, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Duncan, August Sander, Werner Bischof, Ernst Haas, Roman Vishniac, Margaret Bourke-White, Anna Riwkin-Brick, Rene Groebli, Brassai, Paul Himmel, Hans Hammarskjöld, Elliott Erwitt, Bill Brandt, Cas Oorthuys, Dorothea Lange, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, David Seymour, Gordon Parks, Herbert List, Lisette Model, Leon Levinstein, Cornell Capa, Roy deCarava, Joseph Breitenbach, Andreas Feininger, David Seymour, Garry Winogrand, Leonard McCombe, Ed van der Elsken, Jakob Tuggener, Hermann Claasen, Robert Doisneau, Louis Faurer, Robert Capa, George Rodger, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Clemens Kalischer, Arthur Leipzig, Burt Glinn, Eve Arnold, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Wynn Bullock, Frank Horvat and many others. Very important photo publication, with the (printed) signatures by Edward Steichen and Carl Sandburg. The greatest photographic exhibition of all time: "...which symbolize the universality of human emotions..." (New York Times) "...the whole story of mankind..." (Philadelphia Inquirer)