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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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19th-Century Japanese Photography

By Matt Damsker

Thanks in large measure to the Prussian East Asia Expedition of 1861-62, along with other government-funded journeys to the East, images of Japanese culture were brought to the…

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CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY: TRUTH & THE BURDEN OF REALITY

There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality.   The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…

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