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Vintage Photo Fairs Europe, a Group of Tabletop Fairs Join Forces

This summer a new organization was founded, Vintage Photo Fairs Europe. It happened on the initiative of Barnabé Moinard, promoter of the 24.39 Classic Photography Fair (Paris), Mila Palm, Reinhold…

Featured Exhibit

Salt Print Masterworks: 1840s-1850s

By Matt Damsker

The salt print was photography's earliest negative and positive print technique, and occupies an exalted place in photography's history, having been developed by William Henry Fox Talbot in…

Collecting Resources

On Connoisseurship and Photography Print Values: A Discussion

This article is devoted to a very important subject: connoisseurship and the print. This should be a topic of primary concern for any collector, institution or dealer. What…

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