pictures of "family of man", Helsinki

[sculptor]

Does anyone know of an on-line source of a comprehensive photo series / photo journal of "the family of man"?

[oddist]

Finally a response!

Family of man 2: http://www.familyofman2.com/

[sculptor]

Thanks for the effort, but actually, I was refering to the sculpture exhibit/park in scandanavia-it is a group of several over-life-sized nudes---including nursing mothers, men and women and children-----I saw one poor quality picture long ago and wanted to see the series----and cannot find it.

maybe I'm remembering the name wrong or ...........?

[anne (bxl)]

no artist name?
are you sure about the city?
you probably already visited this very interresting site about public art in Helsinki
just in case you didn't :
http://www.taidemuseo.hel.fi/english/veisto/

[obseq]

Rod,

Wasn't this featured in Sculpture not too long ago??
I'll have to go through my old issues from the past year and check.

This all sounds very familiar--Now I am completely curious.

[sculptor]

forgotten artist name

unsure of city or sculpture park

(sigh)

if memory serves--------it was several pieces, life size and bigger, quite realistic, all the work of one sculptor, and was in a park in scandanavia-----and I think, near Helsinki-----

(some days, i suspect that I may have swapped my memory for a new pair of shoes, now, I can't remember where the hell I left the shoes)

rod

[fritchie]

Rod - I think you may be remembering the Vigeland Park of Gustav Vigeland in Oslo, Norway. I was lucky enough to see this about 1960. It’s a city park with hundreds of lifesized and larger pieces, all in stone (granite?) and done by this one man. A true dream come true for a sculptor. He was given a place to work and a lifelong stipend as a fairly young man, with the only requirement that all his work become the property of the state (or city?)

I posted an address on the ISC site not long after it opened. You should find it there, if not in a search engine. I’ll post the address here if someone else doesn’t get to this first.

The work is not entirely realistic, but close, and very fine.

[fritchie]

Rod - Here's (http://www.vigeland.museum.no) the address for the Vigeland Park. The text is in either Norwegian or English, with a switch in the upper right corner. You can click on the opening image to visit various parts of the site.

Reading his life story here, I see that he was given a modest studio by the city of Oslo when he was 33, and then a much better facility and the full assistance I described above, about twenty years later, when he was in his early fifties. Some of the work also is in bronze, I see and now also remember.

[oddist]

So, the only "Family of Man" photo journal I knew of ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0810961695/ref=sib_dp_pt/103-3715471-1989404#reader-page) was not the right one.

At least I revived an old question and got one really good answer.

Fritchie! You came through with a great find. I have seen some of these images in the past but this site is great.

Looks like a place worth visiting. Maybe the ISC could put together a chartered trip?

Regards,

oddist (http://www.torchandpalette.com)

[oddist]

I found some really good photos of Vigeland sculpture here (http://www.milkonline.com/vigeland/default.htm)