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And a Last Note

Fellow AIPAD dealer Stephen Daiter has been a long-time friend back to the days when he had a photo bookstore in Chicago instead of the now important photo gallery under…

Featured Exhibit

Tom Baril's Vintage Prints: A Sense of Place

After graduating from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1980 with a BA in photography, Baril served as Robert Mapplethorpe's exclusive print maker. Since then Baril has distanced himself…

Collecting Resources

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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