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Rijksmuseum Curators, Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom Win AIPAD Award

The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) has announced that Mattie Boom and Hans Rooseboom, Curators of Photography at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, are the recipients of the annual…

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Ilse Bing: A Woman of Consequence

By Alex Novak

Ilse Bing was born in 1899 in Frankfurt, Germany. She studied art history and mathematics at the universities of Frankfurt and Vienna in the late 1920s.…

Collecting Resources

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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