Exhibitions. The Imaginary Photo Museum. With 457 Photographs from 1836 to the Present.

Harmony Books, 1982. Translated from the German Das Imaginäre Photo-Museum. By Renate and L. Fritz Gruber with texts by Helmut Gernsheim, L. Fritz Gruber, Beaumont Newhall, and Jeane von Oppenheim. Stiff illustrated wraps, very good with slight evidence of use on covers. Catalog for a major photography exhibit at Photokina, September 12–28, 1980, at the Kunsthalle in Cologne, Germany.  Newhall's essay traces the history of museums and photography.  Gruber provides a succinct history of the medium.  The 457 photos are arranged in chapters and subchapters: Chronology; Color Photography; and Analogies (The Object, The Nude, The Landscape, The Portrait, The City, The Event, and The Vision).  Helmut Gernsheim follows with the Afterword consisting of a rumination on the exhibit, followed by biographical information on the photographers by von Oppenheim and the usual back matter.  Photographers represented include Berenice Abbott; Ansel Adams; Diane Arbus; Eugene Atget; Richard Avedon; Lewis Baltz; Hippolyte Bayard; Cecil Beaton; E.J. Bellocq; Werner Bischof; Bourke-White; Mathew Brady; Brassai; Robert Capa; Paul Caponigro; Etienne Carjat; Lewis Carroll; Imogen Cunningham; Bruce Davidson; George Davison; F. Holland Day; Baron Adolf De Meyer; Robert Demachy; John M. Divola; Robert Doisneau; Ken Domon; Madame D'Ora; Rudolf Dührkoop; Alfred Eisenstaedt; Ed van der Elsken; Peter Henry Emerson; Hugo Erfurth; Elliot Erwitt; Frank Eugene; Walker Evans; Roger Fenton; Hans Finsler; Franco Fontana; Robert Frank; Lee Friedlander; Luigi Ghirri; Philippe Halsman; Lewis Hine; Emil Hoppe; Gertrude Käsebier; Andre Kertesz; Dorothea Lange; Jacque-Henri Lartigue; Joel Meyerowitz; Duane Michals; Muncacsi; Nadar; Paul Outerbridge; Gordon Parks; Irving Penn; Eliot Porter; Man Ray; Jacob Riis; Erich Salomon; Christian Schad; Ben Shahn; Arthur Siegel; Aaron Siskind; Emmanuel Sougez; Edward Steichen; Alfred Stieglitz; Josef Sudek; William Henry Fox Talbot; Teynard; Roman Vishniac; Weegee; Edward Weston; Clarence White; Garry Winogrand, and many others.