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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

She's Got Legs

By Matt Damsker

Has any body part lent itself more variously and evocatively to photographic fantasy than the leg? Legs are probably the most fetishized of appendages (thanks, in part,…

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Collecting Resources

The Insider's Guide to Selling Photographs

Besides historical and aesthetic considerations, most photography collectors ultimately will face the real economic issue of both buying and selling images.

Few of us merely inherit a collection and then pass…

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