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NY MoMA Hires Makeda Best as Its New Chief Photo Curator
The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Makeda Best as its new chief curator for photography, finally filling a position that had been vacant since the departure of Clément Chéroux…
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Laure Albin-Guillot: Pictorialism into Modernism
By Alex Novak
Laure Albin-Guillot was born in Paris on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1879. She went to school to study music and drawing. The latter skill she continued…
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Jean-Luc Pons Interviews Alex Novak of I Photo Central on the Photo Market
An edited version of this interview first appeared in the September-October-November, 2002 issue of Photographie International. My thanks to its publisher, Jean-Luc Pons, for allowing me to reproduce it…
Read More“I Photo Central adds much-needed transparency to what can be an opaque market in vintage photography. Its calendar of auctions and events is indispensable. From its inception, it has been one of my go-to sites.”
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I Photo Central provides thousands of web pages for the photography collector, curator and historian. This site includes articles on collecting issues (such as connoisseurship and print values; insurance and risk management; appraisals; buying and selling images; developing a photography collecting library; framing/matting and preserving your collection; conservation, etc.). The largest for-sale fine art photography gallery on the web is databased here and is easily accessed through an extensive on-site search engine.
281 issues of the popular E-Photo Newsletter are also archived here and are also searchable; and there is a major International Photography Calendar of Events section.
An additional Special Exhibits section focuses on specific topics, photography processes (such as autochromes, daguerreotypes, stereo views and oratones), contemporary photography and individual photographers.
