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Book Review: Documenting Fashion by Rebecca Arnold

I'm no doubt paraphrasing, but Jean Cocteau once stated, "One must forgive fashion its sins and trespasses for it dies so very young." Fashion, and by extension, fashion photography has…

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Thomas John Shillea: The Nude

Thomas Shillea received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

During his graduate studies at RIT from 1977-1980, he had an opportunity to learn…

Collecting Resources

On Connoisseurship and Photography Print Values: A Discussion

This article is devoted to a very important subject: connoisseurship and the print. This should be a topic of primary concern for any collector, institution or dealer. What…

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