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E-Photo Newsletter #147
8/4/2008

E-Photo Newsletter #148
9/28/2008

Quillan "Leaf" Controversy: Does Sotheby's Go Overboard With Its AuctionPromotion? Is Photo History The Victim?

What to Do to Protect Yourself When Making Purchases At Auctions

Some Thoughts Concerning The Henry Bright Album's Photogenic Drawings

On The Economy

Calling It "The Final Installment", Sotheby's Schedules Jammes Part 4 Sale For Paris On November 15, 2008

Photo News Briefs

Updates On I Photo Central Website

Photo Books: Coming of Rage; Dancing Walls; Vernacular to The Masters; and Two Historical Dutch Volumes

Auction to Benefit The Photo Review

E-Photo Newsletter #149
10/9/2008

Phillips De Pury & Co. Announces Partnership With Mercury Group

Israel Museum Receives One of World's Most Important Private Photography Collections

Swann Holds Major Auction On Oct. 21; Previews Run Oct. 16-21 in New York City

Be-hold Online and Catalogue Photo Auction to Be Held On Oct. 30th At 2 Pm

Doina Popescu Named First Director of New Ryerson Photo Gallery and Research Centre

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

Carnegie Museum of Art Creates New Photo Department and Hires New Curator

E-Photo Newsletter #150
10/20/2008

Our 150th Issue of The E-Photo Newsletter

The Auctions and The Market: a Quick Overview From New York City

Villa Grisebach Holds Auction Nov. 27th

Holiday Sales On View Beginning Nov. 1st On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 19th

Two New Photo Books By Henry Horenstein

Photo Review Auction Now Online

Photographer William Claxton Dies

E-Photo Newsletter #151
10/29/2008

Heritage Auction Holds First Art Photography Auction in Dallas, Dec. 12

Bloomsbury Auctions to Hold Two-Part Auction On November 2oth in London

Holiday Sales On View Beginning Nov. 1st On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 19th

Lee Friedlander Special Exhibit, Book Signing and Gallery Show At Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe, Nm

Other Auction Reminders

Three Photo Books For Your Library: Sculpture, Paulin and Chamlee

Collector Herb Mitchell Passes Away; Collection Goes to NY Met

Photojournalist Alex Rivera Dies At 95

Our First (and Probably Only) Political Endorsement: Barack Obama For President

E-Photo Newsletter #152
11/10/2008

Swann Photo Auction Sells Nearly $1.56 Million, With 73% Of Lots Sold

Bassenge Holds Two Photography Sales On December 3rd in Berlin, Including Soviet War Photographs

Van Ham Holds Photo Auction in Cologne On December 5th

Holiday Sales Now On View On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 19th

Other Upcoming Auction Reminders

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

White House Photographer Stoughton, Who Took Famed Photo of Swearing in of L.B.J. With Jackie Kennedy, Passes Away

Photo Book Reviews: Two Snapshot Compilations--a Dichotomy of Daily Life

Photo News Briefs

E-Photo Newsletter #153
12/5/2008

Latest Market Observations: The View From Paris and Miami

Photo LA Opens On Jan. 8th At Barker Hanger At Santa Monica Airport and Will Run Through Sunday, Jan. 11th

Holiday Sales On I Photo Central End In Two Weeks On Dec. 19Th

Photo Review Benefit Auction Has Sealed Bid Auction of Unsold Lots

Millon Sets Record Prices For Blanc Et Demilly Photos

Photo News Briefs

More Photos and Special Exhibits Added This Month to I Photo Central

New Sudek Book Series Kicks Off

E-Photo Newsletter #154
12/23/2008

A Holiday Message

Responses to Our Holiday Message

E-Photo Newsletter #155
1/2/2009

Photo LA Opens On Jan. 8th At Barker Hanger At Santa Monica Airport and Will Run Through Sunday, January 11th

Christie's Constantiner Collection Auction Nearly Grosses $7-3/4 Million, Most Sold in a Single-Owner Sale There

AIPAD Show Formally Announces New March Dates and Gala Preview

Latest News On Contemporary Works' Artists: Tress, Holden, Birgus, Dobrowner And Abadzic

New Limited Edition Artist Books With Prints Announced By Contemporary Works For Arthur Tress and Lisa Holden

AIPAD Announces New President, Officers and Member Galleries

Other Photography News

Girault De Prangey's Daguerreotypes

E-Photo Newsletter #156
2/6/2009

Photo LA Kicks Off 2009 With a Large, Enthusiastic Crowd, But Moderate Sales

Phillips De Pury Gets Purchased By Russian 'Luxury' Group And Gets New Ceo, Who Was Reportedly A Stasi Informant

AIPAD and AXA Insurance Team Up For New York Photography Show

eBay Forces Buyers and Sellers to Use PayPal Virtually Exclusively

Richard Prince Sued Again For Copyright Infringement

Other Photography News

A Gorgeous Tome, Plus Some Serious Catalogues, Including Work By Brandt, Evans, and Hill & Adamson

More Photos and Special Exhibits Added This Month to I Photo Central

Facebook Community Building For Photography Groups

E-Photo Newsletter #157
2/12/2009

U.S. Congress Votes Against The Arts, Calling Them Unimportant to The Economy

Getty Conservation Institute Develops New Methods For Identifying and Authenticating Photographs

Photography in Virginia; British Calotypes and Many Other Photo Books and Catalogues

E-Photo Newsletter #158
3/15/2009

Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary, The AIPAD Show Kicks Off Next Week From March 25-29 At The Park Avenue Armory in NYC With Over 75 Dealers and a Full Educational Program

Four I Photo Central Member Dealers to Show Key Work At AIPAD Next Week

Congress Votes Some Additional Funds to Nea, But Is It Enough to Help Beleagered Art Museums and Non-Profits?

Photography Book Reviews: Portraits By Mapplethorpe

AIPAD Show Tips For Attendees

E-Photo Newsletter #159
4/1/2009

Republicans Go One Up On Democrats and Pass New Stimulus Package For The Arts With Help of a Few Blue Dog Democrats

AIPAD Photography New York Show Clobbered Again, as Insects Invade Park Ave. Armory Venue in Wave of Destruction

Auction Market For High-End Contemporary Photography Crashes: Andreas Gursky's 99-Cent Dyptich Now Only Worth 98-Cents; Auction Houses Raise Premium Fees to 100%

AIG Financial Services Managers Decide to Give Away Bonus Money to Support The Arts By Buying Up All of Damien Hirst's "Art"

Photography Quotes of The Month

April Fool!

Responses to Newsletter #159

E-Photo Newsletter #160
4/17/2009

AIPAD Show Boosts Market Psychology, as Attendance Maintains Record Level and Final Results Please Most Exhibitors

Art Chicago Kicks Off April 30th At Merchandise Mart, and Runs May 1-4

Contemporary Works/Vintage Worksto Exhibit At Art Chicago in Booth 12-513

Be-hold Stages Its First Ever Live Auction in New York City On April 28th With 160 Lots

Spring Online Photo Auction Set For May 13th On iGavel

Deimar/Noble Photography Opens New Gallery in London On May 7th With Jennie Gunhammar Exhibition

Robert Mann Gallery to Relocate to Manhattan Upper East Side

Three Major Photographers Pass Away At End of March: Helen Levitt, Pirkle Jones and Gianni Giansanti

Photo Book Review: Catalogue Argues For a Reconsideration of Pictorialism

E-Photo Newsletter #161
5/16/2009

Spring Auctions in The Doldrums

Villa Grisebach's June Photo Auction Features Mies Van Der Rohe Photography

Soler Y Llach of Barcelona to Auction Off Over 400 Lots of Photographs and Photo Books Over Two Sessions On May 28th

German Photo Team of Cami and Sasha Stone's Studio Archives Goes Up For Sale At Argenteuil

Curator, Author and Photographer Bill Jay Passes Away in His Sleep

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

Photo Book Reviews: Social History of Photography, and 19th-Century Antwerp in Pictures, Plus Three Other Gems

In Other Photography News: Auction Moves

Griffin Museum Announces 4th Annual Focus Award Recipients

Levitt Honored With Endowment Fund, Promised Gift of Her Photos to NY Met

Humbert Van Es, Dutch Photographer, Dies in Hong Kong At Age 67; Famed For Image of Vietnam's Last Days

E-Photo Newsletter #162
7/10/2009

An American in Europe: a Very Rambling (Hopefully Interesting) Perspective On Photography, With Auction Tallies From London, Paris and a Report From Art Basel; Part One: London

Sotheby's London Sale: Mediocre Results For Mediocre Material

Christie's Photo Book Sale: Nothing to Write Home About

Bloomsbury Auctions Still Looking For Its Groove

Over 330 New Photos and Books, Plus Special Exhibits Go Up On I Photo Central

Photographer Jennie Gunhammar Dies After Documenting Illness

Photography Books and Catalogues

Photo News Briefs

E-Photo Newsletter #163
8/3/2009

An American in Europe: a Very Rambling (Hopefully Interesting) Perspective On Photography, Part Two: France and Switzerland

Paris Auctions: Stone Auction Outperforms Expectations With 86% Sold For a Total of $525,000

Piasa Auction Sells Just Over 50% Mark, Totaling 265,000 Euro

A Pleasant Trip Out to Normandy For a Photography-Oriented Picnic, But Not Without Incident

Art Basel, Still The Art Show For The World, Despite Lack of American Collectors

Bièvres and "See Italy and Die"

Villa Grisebach's Auction Sells Nearly 73% of Its Lots and Totals Over 370,000 Euro

Keeping You Up To Date On Contemporary Works' Photographers And Their Work

Photo Books: Leonard Photo Memoir and Fraenkel's Edward Hopper & Company

Noted Architectural Photographer Julius Shulman Dies in L.A. At Age 98

Job Opening For Photography Specialist, New York City

E-Photo Newsletter #164
10/24/2009

Irving Penn Passes Away At Home in Manhattan At The Age of 92

Major Collection of Ilse Bing Photos to Be Auction in Paris On Nov. 16th

Daguerreian Society Has Annual Conference and Trade Show in Philadelphia, November 11-15

AIPAD Announces New York Show Dates and Eight New Members

I Photo Central Dealers Announce Artist Exhibitions, News and Events

French Photographer Willy Ronis Passes Away At 99 After Being Honored At Arles in July

Hasted Hunt Adds New Partner and Reopens in Space Formerly Occupied By Charles Cowles

Auction to Benefit The Photo Review to Be Held On Nov. 21st; Can Now Be Viewed On Line

Photo Conservator Jose Orraca Passes Away

Photographer and Educator Jerry Burchfield Dies From Colon Cancer

Ted Kuykendall Dies in Roswell, NM

Photo Books: OuterbridgeAhead of His Time; Howe Explores; Darfur Reminds Us

E-Photo Newsletter #165
11/2/2009

Annual Holiday Sale On I Photo Central Runs From Nov. 1-Dec. 18

NYC Auction Season Surprisingly Strong For Most of The Houses: Bloomsbury Only Exception as It Sells Less Than 18% of Its Photos, But Does Better On Books At 63.8%

Christie's Kicks Off 4 Auctions With More From Berman Collection; Sells 88% of Lots and Totals $1.5 Million+

Christie's Sells Single-Owner Collection of Sally Mann Images

Miller-Plummer Collection Sells For $1.8+ Million With 76% Sold By Lot At Christie's

Villa Grisebach Photo Auction Scheduled Nov. 26 With 180 Lots

Bassenge Photography 450-Lot Auction to Be Held On Dec. 2nd

Photo Review Auction Rescheduled For November 21st in Philadelphia

Photographer Roy Decarava Dies At 89 in New York City

Phillips Moves to Bonhams From Sotheby's to Head New Photo Dept.

Best Wishes to Get Well

E-Photo Newsletter #166
11/12/2009

Christie's Multi-Owner Auction Nets $3,439,225 With 74.5% Sold Rate

Sotheby's Sale Tops $3-3/4 Million and Sells Nearly 75% of Its Lots

Swann Totals $1,303,148 and Sells 75% of Its Lots

Annual Holiday Sale On I Photo Central Runs Only Until Dec. 18

Daguerreian Society Annual Symposium and Trade Show Coming Up in Philadelphia This Week

Diemar/Noble Plan Exhibition Of Yvonne De Rosa's 'Crazy God' Work In 2010 In Its London Gallery

Photos From Arab Image Foundation Collection to Be Shown At Paris Photo 2009 in Central Exhibition Space of Fair

Marty Forscher, Camera Repairman, Passes Away in Pittsfield At 87