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Summer Sale on Vintage Works, Ltd.: 20% off Selected Images and Free Ground Shipping
You can get 20% off on photographs on the I Photo Central and Vintage Works websites--and free packing and ground shipping for U.S. clients.
International customers will have to pay actual…
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Alphonse De Launay: Student of Le Gray and Early Photographer of Spain and Algeria
By Alex Novak
Alphonse De Launay, or Delaunay as he sometimes wrote it, was born in 1827 in Manche, which is the most westerly Département of Normandy in France. This…
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Contemporary Photography: Truth & the Burden of Reality
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
Read More“Whether you're a collector, historian, or photographer, the I Photo Central website is the place to go to see (and perhaps buy) a wide range of photographs from throughout the history of the medium. With its intelligent book reviews, historical resources and wealth of images, it's a place you'll want to visit often.”
Editor, The Photo Review / The Photograph Collector
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.
252 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.
