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The Other Photography Fair Launched at Nearby Hilton London Olympia

In March this year, Austin Farahar, Head of Photographica at Chiswick Auctions, London, announced that he was going ahead with an idea he had had for some time, a tabletop…

Featured Exhibit

19th-Century Paper Portraits

By Matt Damsker

Photography's early decades were marked by an explosion of photo-portraiture in Great Britain, America and on the European continent. This exhibit collects a rich trove of vintage…

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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