I very much fear that the final justification of all this Adamism is merely to give the worlds immobility a certain “wisdom” and of a certain “lyrical” nature which will eternalize the actions of man only the better to render them harmless. 

– Roland Barthes

Lesson one of The Family of Man, therefore, is yet another demonstration of the infinite pliability of photographic meaning…

– Abigail Soloman-Godeau