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Project Booths Are a New Addition to the AIPAD Photography Show

New this year at the Photography Show presented by AIPAD are "Project Spaces" that are dedicated areas that present a single artist or a space curated around a specific project,…

Featured Exhibit

20th-Century Ethnographic Photography

By Alex Novak

While ethnographic photography is strictly speaking, photography used for scientific/anthropological purposes to identify characteristics of native types (often indigenous), it has taken on much broader meaning over the…

Collecting 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…

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