Neurath,
Otto (1882-1945) -De moderne mensch onstaat. Een reportage van vreugde
en vrees (1940) [N.V. Noord-Hollandsche Uitgevers Maatschappij; Amsterdam;p.159]
(English/American version in 1939 "Modern man in the making")
"Is
it possible to represent with one single picture essential changes in
the ways of life of modern man - in other words, by elements that did
not only change his technical equipment, but also his hopes and fears?"
() Modern man lives longer than his predecessors. [p.13]
"World
empires: each figure represents a population of 10 million souls."
[p.24]
tBritish
expansion: red = now British; red circumfence line = former British; blue
= United States of America. [p.41]
"Urbanisation,
birth and death: each figure represents 10% of the population. red in
towns of a 100.000 and more. Each green sign represents 5 births on a
1000 souls. Each black sign 5 death on a 1000 souls." [p.45]
"Birth
statistics in a Central European town: each figure represents 1 birth
on a 100 souls." [p.46]
"Age
groups in England and Wales: man (left), women (right): each figure represents
100.000 humans. [p.58]
"Silhouets:
(Vereenigde Staten = USA); red = average age of female population, each
block is 5 years; black = suicides, each block is 25 on a million inhabitants;
green = literacy, each block is 10%; blue = radios, each block is 1 on
a 100 inhabitants." [p.61]
tEconomic
scheme: -usage of natural resources; -semi manufactured articles; -finished
manufactured articles; -distribution and services; each figure represents
500 inhabitants: youth; people who work inside the economic scheme; housewives,
students, etc; -older people. [p.65]
"...
urbanisation as measure of modernity. Population: each figure is 10 million
souls; red in towns of 100.000 and more." [p.69]
"Schematic
representation of war economy: coal, oil, iron, copper, cotton, wheat
and rice; each picture represents 10% of world production." [p.85]
"Wars
of old Rome and Greece from 400 - 200 B.C.: (stammen = tribes; Nabije
Oosten = Near East). Top: each line represents 5 years of war () Bottom:
idem A.C." [p.88]
"Radio,
telephone, car: United States and Canada; Europe; Soviet Union; Latin
America; Southern Regions; Far East; each picture represents 1 million
radios, telephones or cars." [p.108]
Areas
within fifty miles of a railway system. [p.109]
Children
with uncles and aunts; the child without uncles. [p.113]
Work,
free time, sleep: -before; -now; subdivision of the 24 hours of a day:
red = work; blue = free time; black = sleep.
Top:
"Travel distances in the Roman empire; each distance unity represents
1 travel day, red over land, blue by sea". Bottom: "Travel distances
now-a-days: idem. [p.124]
"Infant
mortality, tubercolose, accidents: each square represents 5 death pro
year on a 1000 inhabitans; first infant mortalit, second and third above
the age of 1 year, black external causes, double cross tubercolosis, blank
frame other causes." p.125