The brutality of staring

Seventy years after it opened at MoMA, Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man remains one of photography’s most ambitious and debated exhibitions. Peter Dench travels to its permanent home to find out what still makes it click

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Cuffed, kicked, and camera in hand — David Hoffman’s new book Protest! is the result of 40 years documenting the fight for rights and the force against it. Peter Dench finds out more

Museum of Liverpool /13 September 2025-29 March 2026 / liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Bronze Age gold, Viking silver hoards and Roman coins (above) star in a spectacular display of archaeological treasure. S

Ben Geier’s photographs affectionately capture fast-vanishing relics of ’50s and ’60s roadside Americana. He aims to find subjects that evoke a sense of nostalgia and solitude, he tells David Clark

Exhibition of the week Millet: Life on the ...