The Centre national de l’audiovisuel (CNA) was created in 1989, its main missions being to conserve and honour the national photography, film and sound heritage from Luxembourg. The institute actively collects and archives film, photography and sound documents from a broad range of origins.
Today, the photography collection comprises over two hundred thousand documents and testifies to the the richness of past and contemporary photographic practices and image creation in Luxembourg.
The CNA safeguards and displays two Steichen collections from MoMA, NY: The Bitter Years and The Family of Man The Family of Man, the most popular exhibition in the history of photography, seen by over 10 million visitors since its creation in 1955, is on permanent display in another exhibition space of the CNA located in Clervaux, in the north of Luxembourg.
Since 2015 the Steichen Collections have welcomed a new collection around the figure of Edward Steichen, Steichen - The Photographer, hosted and curated by the Musée national d’histoire et d’art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.
More information can be found on www.steichencollections.lu
Edward Steichen was born in 1879 in Bivange, Luxembourg. A painter and renowned photographer, he became director of the photography department at MoMA, New York in 1947.
The two exhibitions were bequeathed to the Luxembourg Government at Steichen’s request in the 1960s.
Today, the photography collection comprises over two hundred thousand documents and testifies to the the richness of past and contemporary photographic practices and image creation in Luxembourg.
The CNA safeguards and displays two Steichen collections from MoMA, NY: The Bitter Years and The Family of Man The Family of Man, the most popular exhibition in the history of photography, seen by over 10 million visitors since its creation in 1955, is on permanent display in another exhibition space of the CNA located in Clervaux, in the north of Luxembourg.
Since 2015 the Steichen Collections have welcomed a new collection around the figure of Edward Steichen, Steichen - The Photographer, hosted and curated by the Musée national d’histoire et d’art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.
More information can be found on www.steichencollections.lu
Edward Steichen was born in 1879 in Bivange, Luxembourg. A painter and renowned photographer, he became director of the photography department at MoMA, New York in 1947.
The two exhibitions were bequeathed to the Luxembourg Government at Steichen’s request in the 1960s.