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AIPAD's Photography Show Announces 2026 Exhibitors and Focal Point Sector

The Photography Show presented by AIPAD will take place April 22-26, 2026

at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Featuring exhibitors from around the world bringing historically significant and…

Featured Exhibit

Salt Print Masterworks: 1840s-1850s

By Matt Damsker

The salt print was photography's earliest negative and positive print technique, and occupies an exalted place in photography's history, having been developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in…

Collecting Resources

On Connoisseurship and Photography Print Values: A Discussion

This article is devoted to a very important subject: connoisseurship and the print. This should be a topic of primary concern for any collector, institution or dealer. What…

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