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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-…

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Featured Exhibit

Contemporary Daguerreotype: Mirrors to the Future and the Past

By Alex Novak

Today's daguerreians find that in order to be successful they need to research 19th-century techniques and add 20th-century technology to avoid some of the dangerous side effects of…

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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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