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By Alex Novak

Vintage Works was launched as a sole proprietorship in October 1997 and incorporated the following year. To celebrate its 20th year in business, the company is publishing a full-color, 108-page catalogue with 110 special photographs for sale, spanning the history of the medium in most of its major formats, from daguerreotypes and calotypes to color contemporary work. Some are drawn from the owner's personal collection from 20 years ago.

For a free PDF copy of the publication and net price list, just contact us at: info@vintageworks.net.

For a printed version with full net price list while copies last, send a check or money order for $45 made out to Vintage Works, Ltd. to: Vintage Works, Ltd., 258 Inverness Circle, Chalfont PA 18914. Be sure and include your full address and your email.

Vintage Works also just posted up a new Special Exhibit: Charles Aubry: Master of Botanical Still Lifes, which you can find at: https://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase-view.php/16/4/336/1/8/0.

Novak has over 49 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. He is a long-time member and formerly board member of the Daguerreian Society, and, when it was still functioning, he was a member of the American Photographic Historical Society (APHS). He organized the 2016 19th-century Photography Show and Conference for the Daguerreian Society in NYC. He is also a long-time member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD. Novak has been a member of the board of the nonprofit Photo Review, which publishes both the Photo Review and the Photograph Collector, and is currently on the Photo Review's advisory board. He was a founding member of the Getty Museum Photography Council. He is author of French 19th-Century Master Photographers: Life into Art.

Novak has published numerous photography articles and columns in several newspapers, including the Photograph Collector, Focus magazine and the Daguerreian Society Newsletter. He has been interviewed extensively on the photography art market by the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Classic magazine, Maine Antique Digest, the Art Newspaper, Art News, Art Business News, Focus magazine, PDN, Black & White magazine, Photographie Internationale, Antiques & the Arts Online, Art Critical and the Photograph Collector newsletter, as well as by many other publications, television programs and websites, both in the USA and in France. He was quoted extensively in the book, "Collectingphotography" by Gerry Badger. He has spoken at numerous photography events and programs.

He writes and publishes the E-Photo Newsletter, the largest circulation newsletter in the field. Novak is also president and owner of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, a private photography dealer, which sells by appointment and has sold at exhibit shows, such as AIPAD New York and Miami, Art Chicago, Classic Photography LA, Photo LA, Paris Photo, The 19th-century Photography Show, Art Miami, the Daguerreian Society, etc.