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Etherton Gallery Places W. Eugene Smith Minamata Archive with Library of Congress
The Etherton Gallery of Tucson, AZ, has placed the Takeshi Ishikawa Archive of W. Eugene Smith's Minamata photographs with the Library of Congress. The gallery had taken a major…
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In Praise of Pictorialism: Early Pictorial Photography
By Alex Novak
The ideas of Oscar Rejlander, Henry Peach Robinson, and Peter Henry Emerson--while seemingly varied--all pursued the same goal: to gain acceptance for photography as a legitimate art form.…
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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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