Newsletter News
LA Photo Gallerist G. Ray Hawkins Passes Away
G. Ray Hawkins, who opened the first public gallery in Los Angeles devoted to photography in 1975, died last December 11. He was 80 years old.
Hawkins’s gallery introduced numerous well-…
Read MoreFeatured Exhibit
André Adolphe-Eugene Disderi: Promoter of the Carte-de-Visite and Master Portraitist
By Alex Novak
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (March 28, 1819, Paris–October 4, 1889) was a French photographer who started his photographic career as a daguerreotypist but gained greater fame for patenting his version…
Read MoreCollecting Resources
Cindy Sherman's Film Stills: An Evaluation Nearly 30 Years Later
"She's good enough to be a real actress."
--Andy Warhol, n.d.
"Cindy Sherman's Film Stills are the best of my generation."
--Richard Prince, May 5, 2007 email
Almost 30 years after its completion, Cindy…
Read More“I am constantly browsing the I Photo Central website for new ideas, high-quality material, and excellent inventory selections. No experienced collector should be without a 'bookmark' to the website.”
Private Collector
I Photo Central provides thousands of web pages for the photography collector, curator and historian. This site includes articles on collecting issues (such as connoisseurship and print values; insurance and risk management; appraisals; buying and selling images; developing a photography collecting library; framing/matting and preserving your collection; conservation, etc.). The largest for-sale fine art photography gallery on the web is databased here and is easily accessed through an extensive on-site search engine.
271 issues of the popular E-Photo Newsletter are also archived here and are also searchable; and there is a major International Photography Calendar of Events section.
An additional Special Exhibits section focuses on specific topics, photography processes (such as autochromes, daguerreotypes, stereo views and oratones), contemporary photography and individual photographers.
