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LA Photo Gallerist G. Ray Hawkins Passes Away
G. Ray Hawkins, who opened the first public gallery in Los Angeles devoted to photography in 1975, died last December 11. He was 80 years old.
Hawkins’s gallery introduced numerous well-…
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Auradon Brothers: Large Scale French Pictorialism
By Alex Novak
Jean-Marie Auradon was born in the south of France in Languedoc in 1887.
He moved to Paris and became well known for his large-scale nudes, which he posed like…
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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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