The Family of Man Photo Exhibition Returns to Nihonbashi Takashimaya
The exhibition returns to the same department store where it drew roughly one million visitors in 1956, now with a contemporary section tied to the 2027 centennial of Japan-Luxembourg diplomatic ties.
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The Family of Man, the landmark photography exhibition curated by Edward Steichen for MoMA in 1955, returns to Nihonbashi Takashimaya from August 12 to 24. The show marks 70 years since its first Japanese staging in 1956 and features about 115 original prints plus 50 contemporary works.
Nihonbashi Takashimaya hosts the exhibition from August 12 to 24, with August 19 closed. The venue is the main building's eighth floor hall, the same store that presented the show in 1956.
The original exhibition, organized by Edward Steichen in 1955, toured worldwide and drew over nine million visitors. The Japanese edition in 1956 attracted about one million people and was held in a hall designed by Kenzo Tange, which Emperor Showa also visited.
This edition displays about 115 selected original works by photographers including Robert Capa, W. Eugene Smith, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, printed to original size from digitized archives of the permanent collection at Clervaux Castle in Luxembourg. A separate section presents about 50 works by contemporary Luxembourgish photographers and Nikkei photojournalists, created for the 2027 centennial of Japan-Luxembourg diplomatic relations.
Photography is allowed in most areas for personal use, with flash, tripods, and monpods prohibited.
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