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Paris Photo Sees Visitor and Exhibitor Numbers Drop Slightly; While Sales Reports Were Positive; Several Former Long-Time Exhibitors Bailed in 2025

In November, the international photography world once again gathered at the Grand Palais for Paris Photo, the leading fair for fine art photography. The 28th edition of the fair brought…

Featured Exhibit

Ambrotype: Glass Images of a Fragile World

By Matt Damsker

It's a charmed coincidence that the ambrotype process can as easily refer to its Greek root, ambrotos ("immortal"), as to James Ambrose Cutting, of Boston, who patented the…

Collecting Resources

Art of Eating Well in Paris

After hearing about several bad experiences in French restaurants from friends and having numerous people ask me about good places to eat at in Paris, I decided to put together…

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