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Christie's sale of Maillet Daguerreotype Collection Brings in $1,618,722 with a 4.2% Buy-in Rate.
Christie's sale of the Maillet Daguerreotype Collection, the most important sale of daguerreotypes in 25 years, online through June 26, totaled a substantial $1,618,722 with a minuscule 4.2% buy-in rate.…
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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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The Care and Handling of Fine Art Photographs
Because photographs can easily be damaged, taking precautionary measures is the best defense in protecting their value. This article is designed to help you understand the basic care and…Read More“I Photo Central is attractive and easy to navigate, with information for everyone, from curators to collectors, to those wanting to see fine examples from the history of photography. I peruse it regularly and recommend it to colleagues and students. At a glance, it gives a condensed education into the medium's rich history and how photographs are valued and exchanged in our present market.”
Museum Curator
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.
273 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.
An additional Special Exhibits section focuses on specific topics, photography processes (such as autochromes, daguerreotypes, stereo views and oratones), contemporary photography and individual photographers.
