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Legendary Art and Photography Collector Sylvio Perlstein Has Died
An important--if not "legendary", as Artnews called him—experimental art and photography collector and patron Sylvio Perlstein, died August 6 in Antwerp, Belgium at the age of 94. Perlstein was passionate…
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Francis Bolton: Missionary for the Linked Ring
By Alex Novak
Francis Alfred Bolton was born in England in 1866 to a wealthy family. He inherited the family's extensive copper works outside Cheadle and the nearby estate of…
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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…
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