#clervaux

Clervaux Abbey, Luxembourg

Architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp (German, born Dutch, 1865–1946) with the Benedictine monks at the Abbey of St. Maurice and St. Maurus of Clervaux, which he designed, undated (probably 1909/10)

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…