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Interview: Vladimír Birgus, Czech Photographer and Photohistorian
The Czech photographer Vladimir Birgus first gained renown with his black and photographs. At the turn of the 1970s and 1980s, he started photographing in to color, quickly gaining a…
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Down to the Sea in Boats: Images of the Shipping Industry from 1850s-Now
By Matt Damsker
By the time the Suez Canal opened in 1869--speeding and enhancing the shipping trade between Western Europe and Asia--photography had joined the cultural conversation of a world that…
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The Insider's Guide to Selling 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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