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Susan Spiritus: Celebrating 50 Years of Photography and Friendships
Susan Spiritus is celebrating her photography gallery's 50th anniversary this month (actually on June 18th), making her public photo gallery one of the oldest of its type currently still in…
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Down to the Sea in Boats: Images of the Shipping Industry from 1850s-Now
By Matt Damsker
By the time the Suez Canal opened in 1869--speeding and enhancing the shipping trade between Western Europe and Asia--photography had joined the cultural conversation of a world that…
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The Insider's Guide to Buying Photographs
Besides historical and aesthetic considerations, most photography collectors ultimately will face the real economic issue of both buying and selling images.
Few of us merely inherit a collection and then pass…
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