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Iconoclast, Provocateur and Innovator Duane Michals (1932-2026) Passes away
Duane Michals’ spirit left his body on June 9 in NYC. One of the most important and influential photographers of the past century, Duane was an iconoclast, provocateur, and innovator…
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Barry Thumma: Photographing the Presidents and Other High Profile Subjects
By Alex Novak
Barry L. Thumma was born in 1947. He graduated in 1965 from Penn Manor High School and attended Millersville University.
Thumma was an Associated Press photographer, who covered…
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Jean-Luc Pons Interviews Alex Novak of I Photo Central on the Photo Market
An edited version of this interview first appeared in the September-October-November, 2002 issue of Photographie International. My thanks to its publisher, Jean-Luc Pons, for allowing me to reproduce it…
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.
281 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.
