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The Interview: Changing of the Guard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Curator Malcolm Daniel has been a leading light in the world of photography for close to four decades. He spent 23 years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, before continuing…
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Thomas John Shillea: A Classicist with an Experimental Flair
Thomas Shillea received a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
During his graduate studies at RIT from 1977-1980, he had an opportunity to learn…
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The Insider's Guide to Selling 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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