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And a Last Note

Fellow AIPAD dealer Stephen Daiter has been a long-time friend back to the days when he had a photo bookstore in Chicago instead of the now important photo gallery under…

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Fashion Photography through the Ages: Part I

By Alex Novak

Photography has been documenting fashion since a human being was first photographed (probably Louis Daguerre's 1839 image of a Paris street scene with a dandy getting a shoeshine).

The…

Collecting Resources

Contemporary Photography: Truth and the Burden of Reality

There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality.   The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…

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