Newsletter News
Interview: Vladimír Birgus, Czech Photographer and Photohistorian
The Czech photographer Vladimir Birgus first gained renown with his black and photographs. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he started photographing in to color, quickly gaining a…
Read MoreFeatured Exhibit
Alphonse De Launay: Student of Le Gray and Early Photographer of Spain and Algeria
By Alex Novak
Alphonse De Launay, or Delaunay as he sometimes wrote it, was born in 1827 in Manche, which is the most westerly Département of Normandy in France. This…
Read MoreCollecting Resources
Risk Management and Insurance for Private Photography Collectors, Dealers, Gallery Owners and Museums
Most people will never face a disaster that will reduce their 40-foot home to two feet of ashes. Nor will they ever face the loss of a major collection of…
Read More“Over the years the I Photo Central website and its E-newsletter have been an invaluable resource for me as a collector. Of special merit is the website's section on 'Photography Collection Issues and Resources.' I have referred to it numerous times. And, each issue of the newsletter is a must read. It is both informative and enjoyable.”
Private Collector
I Photo Central provides thousands of web pages for the photography collector, curator and historian. This site includes articles on collecting issues (such as connoisseurship and print values; insurance and risk management; appraisals; buying and selling images; developing a photography collecting library; framing/matting and preserving your collection; conservation, etc.). The largest for-sale fine art photography gallery on the web is databased here and is easily accessed through an extensive on-site search engine.
278 issues of the popular E-Photo Newsletter are also archived here and are also searchable; and there is a major International Photography Calendar of Events section.
An additional Special Exhibits section focuses on specific topics, photography processes (such as autochromes, daguerreotypes, stereo views and oratones), contemporary photography and individual photographers.
