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Over 150 New Photographs Recently Added to the I Photo Central Website, Which Now Has Over 4,500 Photographs for Sale
During just the last three months, Contemporary Works/Vintage Works has added over 155 19th, 20th and 21st century images for sale on the I Photo Central website, adding up to…
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Autochrome and Other Early Color Processes: Beauty in Color Photography
By Alex Novak with considerable help from Nicholas Burnett
The first version of the Autochrome, which was the first practical color process, was patented on December 17th, 1903 by the brothers…
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The Insider's Guide to Selling 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…
Read More“I Photo Central has been a great resource for me since I first began collecting. Not only have I found interesting images to buy, but I often just browse through it to sharpen my eye and fill in my knowledge of photo history.”
Museum Curator
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.
279 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.
