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Two Important Upcoming Photography Auctions at Canada Book Auctions on Nov. 2nd and 3rd
This fall, the new kid on the block Canada Book Auctions with Neil D. MacDonald at the helm, will present two auctions of fine 19th- and 20th-century photography, featuring material…
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Early Western Landscapes and Views: From Mammoth Plates to Stereos
By Alex Novak
By the early 1850s and 1860s photographers were beginning to photograph places in the Western United States which few people--and virtually no non-Native Americans--had ever seen.…
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The Insider's Guide to Selling 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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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.
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