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Susan Spiritus: Celebrating 50 Years of Photography and Friendships

Susan Spiritus is celebrating her photography gallery's 50th anniversary this month (actually on June 18th), making her public photo gallery one of the oldest of its type currently still in…

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Featured Exhibit

Gustave Le Gray: Master Photographer of the 19th Century

By Alex Novak

Gustave Le Gray was born August 30, 1820 in Villiers-le-Bel, France.

For about three years at the beginning of the 1840s, Le Gray studied with the painter Paul Delaroche.…

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Collecting Resources

The Insider's Guide to Buying Photographs

Besides historical and aesthetic considerations, most photography collectors ultimately will face the real economic issue of both buying and selling images.

Few of us merely inherit a collection and then pass…

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