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Amid Tough Auction Results Worldwide, Sotheby's Lays off Staff, Increases Buyer's Premium; Phillips CEO Ed Dolman Steps down
It hasn't been the kindest year to the art and collectibles market in general, unlike the currently booming stock market. Whether you are a gallery, private dealer or auction company,…
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Robert Doisneau: Seconds Snatched from Eternity
Robert Doisneau is one the most well known French photographers. He focused on people photography, making images of common people as he wandered through the streets of Paris and…
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The Insider's Guide to Buying Photographs
Besides historical and aesthetic considerations, most photography collectors ultimately will face the real economic issue of both buying and selling images.
Few of us merely inherit a collection and then pass…
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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.
270 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.
