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Holiday Sale from Vintage Works: Save 30% off on over 3,300 Photographs and Photo Books
Why go to the mall and go crazy, when you can shop from home to get the holiday gifts you really want? From now through January 31, 2025, you can…
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Auradon Brothers: Large Scale French Pictorialism
By Alex Novak
Jean-Marie Auradon was born in the south of France in Languedoc in 1887.
He moved to Paris and became well known for his large-scale nudes, which he posed like…
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Basic Core Photography Collecting Books and Other Media by Category
The following group of classic books and resources is what I consider the basic necessities for a photography collector’s library. There are many other fine examples, but this is…
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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.
270 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.
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