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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…
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Francis Bolton: Missionary for the Linked Ring
By Alex Novak
Francis Alfred Bolton was born in England in 1866 to a wealthy family. He inherited the family's extensive copper works outside Cheadle and the nearby estate of…
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Contemporary Photography: Truth and the Burden of Reality
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
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