The Collected Photograph, 1970–1989

In the early 1970s, as galleries and dealers of photography multiplied in New York City and other major cities, the medium began to gain a firm foothold in the art world. Drawn from Richard L. Menschel's 2025 donation of more than eleven thousand pieces of print ephemera—gallery and museum announcements, price updates, invitations, and fliers for novice collectors—this installation chronicles the "photo boom" through which photography came into its own as a fine art.