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Issue #184  10/13/2011
 
Persian Album By Pesce Sells For £39,000
In This Issue:
Dag Society Holds 23rd Symposium On October 27-30 in St. Petersburg, FL
Tokyo Photo 2011: a Work Still in Process
Photo Shows: Julia M. Cameron At Hans P. Kraus, Jr. and a Preview of Paris At Lawrence Miller Gallery, Plus Two More On Madison
Boston Photo Show Scheduled For Nov. 12th At Hynes Center in Copley Sq.
Russell Lord Appointed Curator At New Orleans Museum of Art
Photo Book Review: a Smithsonian Survey of Portraiture's Changing Face
Ruscha Archive and Photos Goes to Getty
Persian Album By Pesce Sells For £39,000
Penelope Dixon & Assoc. Moves Back to NYC
Searching For Oldest Dated Wedding Photo
Internet Site Spotlight: British Photo History
V&A Museum Opens New Large Photo Gallery

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A rare presentation album containing 42 sepia toned salt and albumen prints of Persia in 1860 by pioneering photographer Luigi Pesce fetched an impressive £44,850 including premium, or over $70,000, more than double the estimate, at a Norfolk auction house. It drew international interest, including bidders from France and the United States, before the hammer came down to a London dealer.

The images showed buildings such as mosques and palaces along with desert scenes, in a book inscribed to Sir Henry Rawlinson who was in Persia training the Shah's troops. According to the Keys Aylsham sale room, only two similar books have ever come up for sale in the past: one given to William I of Prussia and the other to an Italian Count. Bidding was intense with seven phone bidders and two in the room for this rare early Middle Eastern album.