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Interview: Ettore Molinario, Italian Collector with a Live-in Museum
Last year, the Italian collector Ettore Molinario and his wife Rossella Colombari opened the much-anticipated Casa Museo Molinario Colombari in Milan. It is a live-in museum, showcasing an impressive collection…
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Salt Print Masterworks: 1840s-1850s
By Matt Damsker
The salt print was photography's earliest negative and positive print technique, and occupies an exalted place in photography's history, having been developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in…
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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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