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Interview: Ettore Molinario, Italian Collector with a Live-in Museum
Last year, the Italian collector Ettore Molinario and his wife Rossella Colombari opened the much-anticipated Casa Museo Molinario Colombari in Milan. It is a live-in museum, showcasing an impressive collection…
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Photographs of Water and Silica: Ocean and Sand
By Matt Damsker
Since the beginning of photography, few subjects have provided such reliable drama as the world's oceans and sands. Ever shape-shifting, they are the ultimate symbols of time's vast…
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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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