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Legendary Art and Photography Collector Sylvio Perlstein Has Died
An important--if not "legendary", as Artnews called him—experimental art and photography collector and patron Sylvio Perlstein, died August 6 in Antwerp, Belgium at the age of 94. Perlstein was passionate…
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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…
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PRINCE AND SHERMAN ARE TOP PHOTOGRAPHY PERFORMERS AT SPRING NYC CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTIONS
If power is the ability to direct or influence the behavior of others, Richard Prince and Cindy Sherman have become the 'new' hyper-real prototypes in the world of contemporary photography.
Both…
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