1955 Exhibition The Family: The exhibition galleries will show detailed case studies of London housing projects from the pioneering Murray Grove through to new schemes for apartments and family homes in all parts of London.
The exhibition will also explain modern construction methods such as modules and panels in concrete, steel and timber.
Photographs have been combined with the printed word, not as literal illustrations, but to reinforce one another so that new meanings can be read in each. Thus in the book Time in New England, an anthology of Ne England writings with Paul Strand's photographs, Nam Newhall put a photograph of a blasted tree with £ account of witchcraft, a stern detail of rock with ey witness accounts of the Boston Massacre, the spire of meeting house with a statement on abolition, an infini seascape with the chronicle of the loss of a ship at se In the 1955 exhibition The Family of Man at The M seum of Modern Art, and in the book made from Edward Steichen not only juxtaposed photographs i family life the world over, but also used photographs metaphors: the great Mount Williamson of Ansel Adan expressed the creation of earth; a photograph by Wyr Bullock of a child asleep in a forest glade, the creatic of man.
The exhibition galleries will show detailed case studies of London housing projects from the pioneering Murray Grove through to new schemes for apartments and family homes in all parts of London.
The exhibition will also explain modern construction methods such as modules and panels in concrete, steel and timber.
An accompanying seminar and lecture series will bring together professionals from the architecture, construction and manufacturing industries to encourage debate on the future of modern housing in the city.
The exhibition can be viewed until 18 March 2006.
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