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Paris Photo Sees Visitor and Exhibitor Numbers Drop Slightly; While Sales Reports Were Positive; Several Former Long-Time Exhibitors Bailed in 2025
In November, the international photography world once again gathered at the Grand Palais for Paris Photo, the leading fair for fine art photography. The 28th edition of the fair brought…
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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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Jean-Luc Pons Interviews Alex Novak of I Photo Central on the Photo Market
An edited version of this interview first appeared in the September-October-November, 2002 issue of Photographie International. My thanks to its publisher, Jean-Luc Pons, for allowing me to reproduce it…
Read More“I Photo Central adds much-needed transparency to what can be an opaque market in vintage photography. Its calendar of auctions and events is indispensable. From its inception, it has been one of my go-to sites.”
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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.
275 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.
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