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NY MoMA Hires Makeda Best as Its New Chief Photo Curator
The Museum of Modern Art has appointed Makeda Best as its new chief curator for photography, finally filling a position that had been vacant since the departure of Clément Chéroux…
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Carte-de-Visites: Photos in Miniature
By Alex Novak
The carte-de-visite (abbreviated cdv or c-d-v) was a type of small photograph mounted on card often with the photographer's printed studio information. The wealthy amateurs Count Olympe…
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Photography Price Gyrations: Gustave Le Gray, A Case Study
There has been and probably always will be a strong market for this 19th-century photographer. Besides being an acknowledged master by virtually every art institution, he is one of the…
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