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By Alex Novak

Bill Brandt: Nude, Campden Hill. Silver print, 13-1/2 x 11-1/2 in. (343 x 292 mm), 1949/1970c.

I am taking a brief break from the show this year, as did a number of AIPAD members last year and this year. But that doesn’t mean that I won't have some wonderful photographs to show privately, including many great new ones just arrived. I will arrive in NYC late Wednesday afternoon, April 22 and leave Monday early afternoon, April 27. I will be staying a few blocks from the Photography Show; and if you would like to make your private appointment with me, please either email me at anovak@iphotocentral.com or call or text me at 1-215-518-6962 on my mobile.

Charles Hippolyte Aubry: A Bunch of Grapes. Albumen print from wet plate negative, 13-3/8 x 10-3/8 in. (340 x 265 mm), 1864c/1864c, on original mount.

If you want me to bring specific photographs, please check here online: https://iphotocentral.com/search/search.php, and call, message or email me your requests now, so that I can bring them to NYC to show you them in person.

I intend to bring nearly two hundred important photographs in any case, and we will have special pricing only available to those who make an appointment this week that I am in New York, so don’t miss out. Preferences on appointments will go to past customers and museum curators.

Novak has over 49 years experience in the photography-collecting arena. He is a long-time member and formerly board member of the Daguerreian Society, and, when it was still functioning, he was a member of the American Photographic Historical Society (APHS). He organized the 2016 19th-century Photography Show and Conference for the Daguerreian Society in NYC. He is also a long-time member of the Association of International Photography Art Dealers, or AIPAD. Novak has been a member of the board of the nonprofit Photo Review, which publishes both the Photo Review and the Photograph Collector, and is currently on the Photo Review's advisory board. He was a founding member of the Getty Museum Photography Council. He is author of French 19th-Century Master Photographers: Life into Art.

Novak has published numerous photography articles and columns in several newspapers, including the Photograph Collector, Focus magazine and the Daguerreian Society Newsletter. He has been interviewed extensively on the photography art market by the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Classic magazine, Maine Antique Digest, the Art Newspaper, Art News, Art Business News, Focus magazine, PDN, Black & White magazine, Photographie Internationale, Antiques & the Arts Online, Art Critical and the Photograph Collector newsletter, as well as by many other publications, television programs and websites, both in the USA and in France. He was quoted extensively in the book, "Collectingphotography" by Gerry Badger. He has spoken at numerous photography events and programs.

He writes and publishes the E-Photo Newsletter, the largest circulation newsletter in the field. Novak is also president and owner of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, a private photography dealer, which sells by appointment and has sold at exhibit shows, such as AIPAD New York and Miami, Art Chicago, Classic Photography LA, Photo LA, Paris Photo, The 19th-century Photography Show, Art Miami, the Daguerreian Society, etc.