Newsletter News
Viviane Esders Prize in Photography Awarded to German Photographer Dörte Eißfeldt.
Viviane Esders and the members of the 2025 jury—Damarice Amao, Antoine de Galbert, Arnaud Lévénès, Robert Pujade, Marie Robert, and Sonia Voss—have awarded the 2025 Viviane Esders Prize to the…
Read MoreFeatured Exhibit
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…
Read MoreCollecting Resources
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…
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.
274 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.
