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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

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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Collecting Resources

sample PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTOR'S VINTAGE & CONTEMPORARY FINE ART INSURANCE POLICY

This policy contains certain words that are defined in the Glossary of Terms on page 8 of this policy. Please review these words and carefully read the policy.

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