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By Alex Novak

Geza Vandor, Self Portrait with Twin Lens Camera and Christmas Bulb. An image in our holiday sale.

We got a little snow (very little) today, which prompted me to write this brief holiday note and finish up our latest E-Photo Newsletter.

During this season with difficult situations around the globe, my holiday wishes to us all are for lasting peace and a world more in tune with those who are helpless and in need. Let us support our leaders in such efforts, but remember that we each have a part to play. Let's reject prejudice and injustice.

Resolve to be kind this year and less quick to judge. Social media often plays a more negative role just so they get more clicks, more audience and more money. We should all try not to fall into simplistic traps and propaganda brought by a politicized media and politicians of all stripes. It's not the first time that I have pointed this out in my Holiday Message.

Yes, my business has been slow this year, so we have a holiday sale on most images on the website right through until the end of January, as you will see in a later article. Can't guarantee delivery before the Christmas, etc., but we'll work on it as quickly as we can.

I hope everyone is well, and you all have a joyous and happy time with friends and relatives. Hugs to all, even if it is a bit politically incorrect.

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.