Susan Sontag called this exhibition “the last sigh of the Whitmanesque erotic embrace of the nation” in her book-length essay On Photography. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this large exhibition of world photography curated by Edward Steichen that opened at the MoMA in 1955. Its name comes from a line in a poem by Carl Sandburg.
ANSWER: The Family of Man
[10m] In On Photography, Sontag compares The Family of Man to a retrospective of this photographer’s works depicting “freaks.” This artist’s photograph of identical twin sisters in New Jersey inspired a scene in the film The Shining.
ANSWER: Diane Arbus
[10e] Sontag’s list of “freaks” in Arbus’s works includes a “Jewish giant” living with his parents in this city, which is also the setting of Arbus’s photograph of a child with a toy hand grenade in Central Park.
ANSWER: New York City [or NYC]
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