pHumans, unlike other living creatures, want to make and look at pictures. So begins the introduction to the jaw-dropping array of photographs in iLong Story Shorti, the latest in Fraenkel Gallery's idiosyncratic surveys of photography since the medium's invention 180 years ago. pA surprising and unconventional slice of photography's history, iLong Story Shorti is also an abbreviated tour of Fraenkel Gallery's approach to photography. Published to mark the gallery's 40th and still counting year, this sumptuously designed and printed volume presents work by photography's masters alongside that of little-known artists and anonymous thrift shop finds. pAmong the images to be discovered here are Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 study of a contortionist performing extreme body movements Man Ray's 1923 ghostlike rayograph of an irradiated banjo and a female impersonator applying her lipstick backstage, as seen by Diane Arbus in 1959. pInterwoven among these are anonymous photographs of a tornado to