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• Issue #200
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By Alex Novak

The E-Photo Newsletter has reached yet another milestone. This is our 200th issue. It began rather modestly nearly 15 years ago. Numerous friends and acquaintances knew that I had attended the Sotheby's Southworth & Hawes auction (April 1999). Instead of repeating the same individual response to the many emails I was getting asking me about the auction, I thought that I would send the information out to what was then a very small email list of 400 friends and clients, which has now grown to over 7,500 people. Plus the pass-along readership and website readers easily make the total readership top 15,000, making it the largest circulation publication of its kind purely focused on photography collecting/curating.

While I had planned a special 200th issue, I simply found myself a bit snowed (literally) under this Winter preparing for the new website design (coming very shortly to I Photo Central), holidays, two exhibit shows, taxes, minor medical issues, a sister's marriage, etc. But we will have some pleasant surprises in upcoming issues for you and on the I Photo Central website, and hopefully you will still enjoy this issue and its coverage. We will catch you up on a lot of news over the next two weeks too.

By the way, I Photo Central has added over 175 new photographs just in the past month, which you can find here: http://www.iphotocentral.com/search/result_list.php/16/90/0.

I did want to thank each and every one of my readers for your patience with me, kindness and support; and I hope to meet many of you at the upcoming AIPAD Photography New York Show, April 9-13 at the Park Avenue Armory, where we (Contemporary Works/Vintage Works) will be exhibiting in booth 213, right in the very middle of the show.

Novak has over 49 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. He is a long-time member and formerly 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 in NYC. 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 published numerous photography articles and columns in several newspapers, including the Photograph Collector, Focus magazine and the Daguerreian Society Newsletter. He has been interviewed extensively on the photography art market by the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Classic magazine, Maine Antique Digest, the Art Newspaper, Art News, Art Business News, Focus magazine, PDN, Black & White magazine, Photographie Internationale, Antiques & the Arts Online, Art Critical and the Photograph Collector newsletter, as well as by many other publications, television programs and websites, both in the USA and in France. He was quoted extensively in the book, "Collectingphotography" by Gerry Badger. He has spoken at numerous photography events and programs.

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, the Daguerreian Society, etc.