#clervaux

Clervaux Abbey, Luxembourg

"Clervaux. Abbaye St. Maurice vue de l'Église / Klerf. Abtei von der Pfarrkirche aus"

View of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Maurice in Clervaux (LU: Clierf), Luxembourg. Undated postcard printed by B. Kühlen in Mönchengladbach (probably after 1906, before 1926).

Luxembourg In January of 1955, Edward Steichen—a photographer and then Photography Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)—opened a photo exhibit entitled The Family of Man. In those years following World War II, the impetus was to portray the universality of the human condition—to make the point that we are all, in fact, of one family. Millions of photographs were submitted for…