Italy will reduce value-added tax (VAT) on art and photography sales from 22% to 5%, following approval of the change in a cabinet meeting on June 20th. The amended VAT…
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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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