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Paris Tabletop Photo Fair Opens Only on Saturday, Nov. 14th at the Pavillon Wagram with 60 International Dealers Focusing on Vintage Photography
The Paris photography trade fair 24.39 returns for its third edition during Paris Photo week, bringing 60 international exhibitors to the Pavillon Wagram (47 avenue de Wagram, Paris, in the…
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Gustave Le Gray: Master Photographer of the 19th Century
By Alex Novak
Gustave Le Gray was born August 30, 1820 in Villiers-le-Bel, France.
For about three years at the beginning of the 1840s, Le Gray studied with the painter Paul Delaroche.…
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Basic Core Photography Collecting Books and Other Media by Category
The following group of classic books and resources is what I consider the basic necessities for a photography collector’s library. There are many other fine examples, but this is…
Read More“I Photo Central adds much-needed transparency to what can be an opaque market in vintage photography. Its calendar of auctions and events is indispensable. From its inception, it has been one of my go-to sites.”
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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.
283 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.
