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By Alex Novak

Jerry Spagnoli, Eclipse.

Contemporary Works/Vintage Works will feature “French Calotypes from 1843 to 1860” at its booth (C64) at AIPAD, April 25-28 at the Park Avenue Armory, New York., with over 100 examples on display.

Some of the photographers whose work will be on available include Édouard Baldus, Hippolyte Bayard, Eugene Cuvelier, Louis-Alphonse Davanne, Gustave de Beaucorps, Octave de Bermond de Vaulx, François Joseph Édouard De Campigneulles, Louis De Clercq, Alphonse De Launay, Vicomte Joseph de Vigier, Victor Dijon, Maxime Du Camp, Jean-Baptiste Frenet, André Giroux, John Beasley Greene, Baron Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard, Colonel Jean-Charles Langlois, Auguste Laresche et Th. Monaton, Gustave Le Gray, Firmin-Eugène Le Dien, Auguste Mestral, Henri Le Secq, Charles Marville, Farnham Maxwell Lyte, Felix Nadar /Adrien Tournachon, Baron Albert Victor Nau de Champlouis, Charles Nègre, Pierre Emile Joseph Pécarrère, Louis-Remy Robert Jean Gaspard, Marquis de Rostaing, Auguste Salzmann, John Stewart, Felix Teynard, Ferdinand Tillard, Julien Vallou de Villeneuve and Varin Freres.

The booth will also show the seascapes, military, and park and urban landscape views by the French 19th-century master Gustave Le Gray.

There will be a booth wall devoted to rare and exotic images of the studio of the painter Mariano Fortuny y Marsal (1838–1874), who was undoubtedly the Spanish artist with the greatest international fame in the 19th century.

Gustave Le Gray and Auguste Mestral: Portail Ouest, Eglise Sainte-Marie, Arles-sur-tech (Pyrénées-Orientales). Salt print from waxed paper negative, 1851.

We will also feature vintage modernist work from 20th-century masters, such as Man Ray, André Kertész, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Brassai, Gyorgy Kepes, Horst and Wols. In addition, the humanist work by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau will be available.

Special pricing will be available only at the AIPAD show for these important photographs on our walls. A preview of the images with our normal pricing can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/569e5mu6.

Contemporary artists represented and displayed by Contemporary Works/Vintage Works will include Thomas Shillea, Jerry Spagnoli and Arthur Tress. Spagnoli's spectacular large color photograph of the recent eclipse will be on exhibit and available for order. Tom Shillea will be signing his new book on Friday, April 26th at 1-4pm, "Thomas Shillea L’EXPOSITION Classical to Experimental Photographs", which will be on sale in the booth.

Novak has over 48 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. He is a long-time member and formally board member of the Daguerreian Society, and, when it was still functioning, he was a member of the American Photographic Historical Society (APHS). He organized the 2016 19th-century Photography Show and Conference for the Daguerreian Society. He is also a long-time member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD. Novak has been a member of the board of the nonprofit Photo Review, which publishes both the Photo Review and the Photograph Collector, and is currently on the Photo Review's advisory board. He was a founding member of the Getty Museum Photography Council. He is author of French 19th-Century Master Photographers: Life into Art.

Novak has had photography articles and columns published in several newspapers, the American Photographic Historical Society newsletter, the Photograph Collector and the Daguerreian Society newsletter. He writes and publishes the E-Photo Newsletter, the largest circulation newsletter in the field. Novak is also president and owner of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, a private photography dealer, which sells by appointment and has sold at exhibit shows, such as AIPAD New York and Miami, Art Chicago, Classic Photography LA, Photo LA, Paris Photo, The 19th-century Photography Show, Art Miami, etc.