The Imaginary Photo Museum: 457 Photographs from 1836 to the Present

Andre Malraux once dreamed of the "imaginary museum," a description of what one might choose from the world's art to hang in a personal museum. He suggested that modern printing made this idea a possibility. The Imaginary Photo Museum has made this fantasy a reality. Renate and L. Fritz Gruber have chosen 457 full-color and black-and-white photographs by the most outstanding photographers of the past and present, including Mathew Brady, Alfred Stieglitz, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Each genre is presented within its own distinct gallery; the book also contains a brief history of each photographer, the date of each photo, and what method was used.

Published in 1982 by Harmony Books

270 pages / Paperback