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FOMU – Fotomuseum Antwerp: An Interview with Tamara Berghmans, Curator of the Collections Department
On October 23, FOMU, Fotomuseum Antwerp will open the exhibition "Early Gaze; Unseen Photography of the 19th Century". Tamara Berghmans, Curator of the Collections Department explains, "The last exhibition FOMU…
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Down to the Sea in Boats: Images of the Shipping Industry from 1850s-Now
By Matt Damsker
By the time the Suez Canal opened in 1869--speeding and enhancing the shipping trade between Western Europe and Asia--photography had joined the cultural conversation of a world that…
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Jean-Luc Pons Interviews Alex Novak of I Photo Central on the Photo Market
An edited version of this interview first appeared in the September-October-November, 2002 issue of Photographie International. My thanks to its publisher, Jean-Luc Pons, for allowing me to reproduce it…
Read More“I Photo Central adds much-needed transparency to what can be an opaque market in vintage photography. Its calendar of auctions and events is indispensable. From its inception, it has been one of my go-to sites.”
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