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Former Director of the GEH and CCP James Enyeart Passed Away
James Lyle Enyeart, an internationally respected curator, scholar, photographer, and leading figure in the curation and promotion of the photographic arts, passed away in Santa Fe, NM on November 28,…
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Salt Print Masterworks: 1840s-1850s
By Matt Damsker
The salt print was photography's earliest negative and positive print technique, and occupies an exalted place in photography's history, having been developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in…
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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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