Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain future
- Written by Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University
Cyril Porchet, Swiss born 1984, Untitled 2014 from the series Crowd, inkjet print
139.0 x 169.0 x 3.5 cm.© Cyril Porchet
In 1955, an enormous photographic exhibition, The Family of Man, challenged the world as to what it meant to be human. The curator, Edward Steichen, assembled 503 photographs by 273 photographers from 68 countries, while his...