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Summer Sale of over 4,000 Photographs on I Photo Central at 30% Discount
You can get 30% off on thousands of select photographs on the I Photo Central or Vintage Works websites--and FREE packing and ground shipping for Continental U.S. clients (except on…
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Johann Ludwig Belitski: 19th-century Master of Lighting and Still Life
By Alex Novak
Johann Ludwig Belitski was a photographer born in Liegnitz in Silesia (now Legnica, Poland) about 1830. He died in Nordhausen, Germany, in 1902.
Belitski trained as a gilder…
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Contemporary Photography: Truth and 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“Not only is I Photo Central a wonderful source for information about the photographic market place, it also connects all of us in the photographic community. In creating it, Alex Novak has given us a great gift.”
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