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Legendary Art and Photography Collector Sylvio Perlstein Has Died
An important--if not "legendary", as Artnews called him—experimental art and photography collector and patron Sylvio Perlstein, died August 6 in Antwerp, Belgium at the age of 94. Perlstein was passionate…
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Contemporary Art Photography: A Selection
By Matt Damsker
Unlike in past periods, there's no mainstream or orthodoxy to art photography in today's post-postmodern era. Where once photographers held to the primacy of black and white…
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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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