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Photo Gallerist Notes Scammers on LiveAuctioneers

Anywhere in the world of art, antiques and collectables where there's money to be made, there is bound to be fakery. Two of the most famous cases in photography were…

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Chicago New Bauhaus School Alumni

The New Bauhaus, founded in 1937 in Chicago, was the immediate successor to the German Bauhaus dissolved in 1933 under National Socialist pressure. Bauhaus ideology had a strong…

Collecting Resources

The Insider's Guide to Buying Photographs

Besides historical and aesthetic considerations, most photography collectors ultimately will face the real economic issue of both buying and selling images.

Few of us merely inherit a collection and then pass…

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