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Christie's sale of Maillet Daguerreotype Collection Brings in $1,618,722 with a 4.2% Buy-in Rate.

Christie's sale of the Maillet Daguerreotype Collection, the most important sale of daguerreotypes in 25 years, online through June 26, totaled a substantial $1,618,722 with a minuscule 4.2% buy-in rate.…

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Featured Exhibit

Tom Baril's Vintage Prints: The American Diner

After graduating from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1980 with a BA in photography, Baril served as Robert Mapplethorpe's exclusive print maker. Since then Baril has distanced himself…

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Collecting Resources

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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