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ICP Honors Susan Meiselas with Its Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award
This year, Susan Meiselas will be presented with the ICP Infinity Lifetime Achievement Award for her outstanding lifelong achievements in photography and photojournalism.
The International Center of Photography (ICP) Infinity…
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Picasso and His Circle in Photographs
By Matt Damsker
The most formidable artist of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso, was destined to leave a photographic legacy, even though the camera was never his chosen medium. But…
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Basic Core Photography Collecting Books and Other Media by Category
The following group of classic books and resources is what I consider the basic necessities for a photography collector’s library. There are many other fine examples, but this is…
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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.
271 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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