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Italy Reduces VAT on Art and Photography Sales to 5%

Italy will reduce value-added tax (VAT) on art and photography sales from 22% to 5%, following approval of the change in a cabinet meeting on June 20th. The amended VAT…

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Featured Exhibit

Autochrome: Beauty in Colored Pointillism

By Alex Novak with considerable help from Nicholas Burnett

The first version of the Autochrome, which was the first practical color process, was patented on December 17th, 1903 by the brothers…

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Collecting Resources

On Connoisseurship and Photography Print Values: A Discussion

This article is devoted to a very important subject: connoisseurship and the print. This should be a topic of primary concern for any collector, institution or dealer. What…

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Art and Photographic Historian

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