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Vintage Photo Fairs Europe, a Group of Tabletop Fairs Join Forces

This summer a new organization was founded, Vintage Photo Fairs Europe. It happened on the initiative of Barnabé Moinard, promoter of the 24.39 Classic Photography Fair (Paris), Mila Palm, Reinhold…

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Laure Albin-Guillot: Pictorialism into Modernism

By Alex Novak

Laure Albin-Guillot was born in Paris on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1879. She went to school to study music and drawing. The latter skill she continued…

Collecting Resources

Contemporary Photography: Truth and the Burden of Reality

There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality.   The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…

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