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New Biannual Magazine Launched for Classic Photography
The words "print is dead, the future is digital" have been repeated ad nauseam the last 10 years. Evidently the French dealer and fair promoter Bruno Tartarin and the London…
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Ilse Bing: A Woman of Consequence
By Alex Novak
Ilse Bing was born in 1899 in Frankfurt, Germany. She studied art history and mathematics at the universities of Frankfurt and Vienna in the late 1920s.…
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Basic Core Photography Collecting Books and Other Media by Category
The following group of classic books and resources is what I consider the basic necessities for a photography collector’s library. There are many other fine examples, but this is…
Read More“I Photo Central is one of the best resources to find out what is going on in the photographic world. I refer to it all the time and look forward to the newsletter, which on the redesigned website is well organized and--as always--contains lots of interesting information.”
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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.
249 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.
