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AIPAD’s 45th Edition of the Photography Show Returns to the Park Ave. Armory, April 22-26 with 78 Galleries.

AIPAD's Photography Show returns to the historic Park Avenue Armory, April 22-26, with 78 galleries from around the world showing photography from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. The show’s…

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Featured Exhibit

Early American Western Landscapes: From Mammoth Plates to Stereos

By Alex Novak

By the early 1850s and 1860s photographers were beginning to photograph places in the Western United States which few people--and virtually no non-Native Americans--had ever seen.…

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Collecting Resources

Photography Price Gyrations: Gustave Le Gray, A Case Study

There has been and probably always will be a strong market for this 19th-century photographer. Besides being an acknowledged master by virtually every art institution, he is one of the…

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