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E-Photo Newsletter #243
9/4/2018

E-Photo Newsletter #242
6/17/2018

The Fourth Edition of Photo London: Good Education Programs, Sprawling, Confusing Fair Layout and Mixed Exhibitor Results

Special Edition of the London Photograph Fair Is an Interesting Side Trip during the Week of Photo London

Be-hold June 27th Auction Features Rare Vintage Capa Image of His "Fallen Soldier"

Summer Photography Sale: 30% off Selected Images and Free Ground Shipping

Moholy-Nagy Photogram Sets New German Photo Auction Record at 488,000 Euros

War Photojournalist David Douglas Duncan Dies in France at 102 Years Old

Magazine and Book Photographer and Writer Art Shay Dies of Heart Failure at 96

E-Photo Newsletter #241
5/28/2018

Group of Reportedly Altered Daguerreotypes with Dubious Signatures, etc. Appears on Market and Includes Daguerre, Le Gray, the Bisson Frerer and Th. Jacobi

On Exhibit: Shape of Light--100 years of Photography and Abstract Art at London's Tate Modern: Now-October 14, 2018

Forum Auctions Launches Its First Photo and Photobook Auction in London on Friday, June 1st.

Bonhams Auction House May Be up for Sale Again

James Ganz to Join the Getty as Senior Curator of Photographs

Photo Books: From Paper Promises to Tintypes to a Land of Epic Battles

E-Photo Newsletter #240
4/17/2018

AIPAD'S 2018 New York Photography Show: Woke, World-spanning Wonder on Pier 94

Participate in an Upcoming Online Survey about the AIPAD New York Photography Show

Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography--Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Oscar Rejlander and Clementina Hawarden The National Portrait Gallery, London, until May 20th

Millon to Auction Photographer Claude Dityvon's Body of Work on May 15 in Paris

DC Antique Photo, Postcard and Camera Shows Sold and under New Management

Leica Camera Sold for New Auction Record 2,400,000 Euro (USD $2,976,000) at WestLicht Record-Breaking Auction

Harry Ransom Center Acquires Fritz Henle Archive

E-Photo Newsletter #239
2/16/2018

AIPAD Photography Show Returns to Pier 94 the First Week of April

In Praise of History, Context, Richness, Knowledge and Understanding in Photography (and Art)

Dominic Winter’s "Photography: The First 150 Years" Spring Auction Set for March 9th

Simon Baker Appointed Director of Maison Européenne de la Photographie

Photo Books: Hard Life from Eugene Richards, Sun-Kissed 19th-century Riviera and Schatz's Kink

Hymans Donate 125 Works to Yale Center for British Arts

Beetles+Huxley Changes Name to Huxley-Parlour Gallery

E-Photo Newsletter #238
1/12/2018

A Belated Holiday Greeting and a Plea for Balance and Charity

A Look Back and a Look Forward: 2017 and 2018 Photo Market in Perspective, Especially in an Inflationary Market

Skinner's Prints and Photographs Auction Set for Boston on January 26th

Daguerreian Society Launches Two-Day Spring Photography Fair at Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, April 7-8

Leslie Hammons Becomes Partner with Martin Weinstein, and Minneapolis Gallery Is Renamed Weinstein Hammons Gallery

Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation Relocates and Names François Hébel as New Managing Director

Phillips Hires Chris Mahoney as Senior International Photography Specialist

Nearly 200 New Items Go up Online on I Photo Central

Long-Time Daguerreotype Collector and Private Dealer Julian Wolff Passes Away

E-Photo Newsletter #237
12/1/2017

Paris Photo 2017 Sees Strong Sales and New Collectors Entering the Market, Setting New Attendance Records along the Way

More Photography at the Tabletop Photo Paris Vintage Fair

Phillips Will Auction Cartier-Bresson Master Set Collection from Gallerist Peter Fetterman in NYC on December 12th.

Man Ray's Iconic Noire et Blanche Sells for Record-Breaking €2,688,750, the Most to Date for a Classic Photograph

Holiday Sale from Vintage Works and I Photo Central: Save 30% off on over 2,500 Photographs and Photo Books

Classic Photographs Los Angeles Getting New Location, New Dates and Makes Admission Free

Photo Books: Award-Winning "New Realities" from the Rijksmuseum; "For the Love of the Image", A Dealer Catalogue of 110 Key Photographs

E-Photo Newsletter #236
10/25/2017

Millon Will Auction off Important 19th and 20th-Century Photography, Including the the Third Full-Plate Daguerreotype Self Portrait by Camille Dolard, on Nov. 7th in Paris

Non-Profit Photo Review's Auction to Celebrate Its 41st Anniversary Features Top Name Photographers from 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries This Saturday, Oct. 28th

Be-hold Holds Photo Auction on November 17th

Swann Auction Brings in $1,476,675 and Sells 72% by Lot

When War Begets Art: A Curator's Tale in the New York Times

A Reminder: Vintage Works Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with Special Catalog

E-Photo Newsletter #235
10/16/2017

Vintage Works Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary with Special Catalog

Nearly 130 New Photos and Several Special Exhibits Go up on the I Photo Central Website

Art Gallery Ontario Names Julian Cox New Deputy Director

Photographer Pete Turner Passes Away

ICP Plans to Reunite Museum and School at New Lower East Side Location in 2019

Anne Breckenridge Barrett Appointed Director of the Center for Creative Photography

Artist Dawoud Bey Receives 2017 MacArthur Fellowship

Carol Ehlers Appointed Regional Director, VP and Photographs Specialist by Phillips

AIPAD Brings in Béatrice Andrieux, Former Paris Photo Artist Director

Keith De Lellis Gallery Moves to Fuller Building

E-Photo Newsletter #234
9/18/2017

Multiple Hurricanes and Their Effects Set Back Photography and the Arts in Texas, Florida and Elsewhere

Auction News: Big Three Houses Increase Buyer's Premiums Again; Sotheby's Kills off Buyer's Premium for Online-Only Auctions, and Launches New Contemporary/Post War Photography Sale

Be-hold to Exhibit Vintage Photographs by Italian Master Paolo Gioli, Opening on Sept. 23rd in Yonkers, NY

Photo Books: Great Artists Make for Great Photography in Extensive 19th-century French Photo Survey

French Couturier, Art and Culture Maven and Auction Owner Pierre Bergé Passes Away

Photographer Martin Parr Opens His Foundation to the Public in October in Bristol, UK

E-Photo Newsletter #233
6/20/2017

Photo London Heads off in a Different Direction for Its Third Edition and Ends on an Upbeat Note

London Auction Silly Season Does Relatively Well

Phillips London Brought in a Sales Total of £2,244,875, Which Topped All Other Auction House Results in London in May

Christie's May 18th London Sales Totalled £1,541,125

Rounding out the May 18th London Auctions, Dreweatt & Bloomsbury Brought in £126,988

The First of Sotheby's Auctions on May 19th, Its General Sale, Takes in £816,000

Sotheby's "The Discerning Eye: Property from the Collection of Eric Franck, Part 1" Totals £319,188

Second Gerard Levy Catalogue Sale in Paris Brings in over 660,000 Euros, Even as Major Nadar Lots Fail to Sell

E-Photo Newsletter #232
6/7/2017

Second Part of Gérard Lévy's Photography Collection Goes up for Sale in Paris in Two Auctions on June 13th and 16th

Photography Gallery Activity

Photographer Marie Cosindas Dies at 93

Former ICP Curator Miles Barth Passes Away

E-Photo Newsletter #231
4/24/2017

AIPAD's New York Photography Show 2017 Soars in New Space with Strong Sales and Sights

Important Adolphe Braun Auction Set for Paris on May 17th

Skinner Schedules Spring Prints and Photographs Auction for May 19th

Photography Book Reviews: Thiollier's 19th Century, Dawoud Bey's Community

Over 250 New Items Posted up for Sale on I Photo Central Web Site in Just the Last Few Months

New Special Exhibits Go up on I Photo Central

E-Photo Newsletter #230
2/26/2017

The Photography Show Presented by AIPAD Moves to Pier 94 in NYC and Has a Huge Expansion of Its Programs and Number of Exhibitor Booths; Show Scheduled March 30-April 2

Boissinot-Tailliez Auctions 55 Early Doisneau Prints on March 11th

Nearly 200 New Items up Online on I Photo Central

Pre-order Vintage Works' New Limited Edition Book on Early French 19th-century Photography

Contemporary Works Issues a New Catalogue of Artist Lisa Holden's Recent Work

Early NYC Photo Gallerist Marjorie Neikrug Passes Away

E-Photo Newsletter #229
12/28/2016

A Busy Schedule of Paris Auctions Adds Further Exhaustion to the Week of Paris Photo

Part 2: New Observations on the Ever-Changing Photography Market (What Keeps Me up at Night)

Big Changes and Expansion in 2017 for AIPAD's 'The Photography Show' Announced

Skinner Auction Set for January 27th in Boston

Eighth Edition of Classic Photographs Los Angeles Scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, January 21-22, 2017

Daguerreian Collector Matthew Isenburg Passes Away

E-Photo Newsletter #228
12/15/2016

Paris Photo Comes back Stronger Than Ever Despite American Election Hit; Attendance up at a "More Serious" Fair

Part 1: Paris Photo Week Observations and Dealing with Change

Important Gérard Lévy Photo Collection Goes up for Sale in Paris on Dec. 20th at Drouot

Photo Books: Photography on the Street, and around the World

E-Photo Newsletter #227
8/22/2016

A Report on the 47th Arles Photo Festival, July 4 – Sept. 25, 2016

19th-Century Photography Events Shaping up for October 19-23, 2016 in NYC

Photo Book Review: Masters On Glass

New Nonprofit to Preserve Endangered Legacy of 20th-century Photography Launched by Dixon and Gaines

Vintage Works Is Running Largest Sale Ever at Half Off

Panel Discussion on Found Photographs to Be Held at Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair

E-Photo Newsletter #226
7/29/2016

Diane Arbus's Long, Hot Summer Simmers at Met Breuer

London Auctions Were a Mixed Bag This Spring

Dave Heath, Poet-Photographer, Dies from Fall on His 85th Birthday

Membership in the Daguerreian Society and 19th-century Photography

French curator Clément Chéroux Takes over the Reins in San Francisco

Vintage Works Is Running Largest Sale Ever at Half Off

Photography Books: Josephson's Conceptualism, Sternberger's Pathognomicism, Katsiff's Nature Morte

New Website for the Art Institute of Chicago's Alfred Stieglitz Photography Collection

Photo News Briefs

E-Photo Newsletter #225
6/9/2016

Photo London's 2nd Edition Gains Crowds, But Buyers Are the Real Question for Exhibitors; Meanwhile Tate Hosts Photobook Fair

Be-hold Holds June 16th Internet Auction and Puts on Gallery Show in Yonkers, NY that runs until July 16th

Philippe Garner Retires from Christie's

E-Photo Newsletter #224
5/11/2016

The Photography Show – AIPAD 2016: A Time for Change

Spring Photo Auction Coming up This Friday at Skinner

Pricing for 19th-century Photography Events in October in NYC

E-Photo Newsletter #223
4/4/2016

36th Edition of The Photography Show Hits the Park Ave. Armory in New York City, April 14-17

Society Schedules Exciting Fall Program in New York City: Oct. 19-23, including the World's Largest 19th-century Photography Show

Swann's February Auction Sells Mural Adams' Moonrise for $221,000 and Brings in a Total of Over $1.64 Million

Photo Books: The Definitive Dave Heath; Iceland and Oceans

E-Photo Newsletter #222
3/4/2016

Feds Put up Rivkin Collection at Christie's and Net $9 million

AIPAD Show Forced to Move to Pier 94 Next Year

Reed Cancels Paris Photo LA and FIAC LA

Noted French Dealer Gérard Lévy Passes Away

British Museums to Form Half-Million Photo International Photography Resource Centre

Yasufumi Named Curator of Photography and New Media at Minneapolis Institute of Art

390 New Items Posted up for Sale on I Photo Central Web Site in Just the Last Three Months

E-Photo Newsletter #221
12/26/2015

A Holiday Message

E-Photo Newsletter #220
12/7/2015

Paris Photo 2015: Sales Amidst Tragedy

Paris: A Personal Experience

Auctions A Plenty Surround Paris Photo Time Period

Save These Dates for 19th-century Photography Conference and Show: Oct. 19-23, 2016 in NYC

Stephen Stein Makes Promised Gift of 83 Top Photographs to NGA

Photo Books: Cities Dark and Light, from Saville and Abadzic

E-Photo Newsletter #219
10/12/2015

Be-hold 62 Internet Auction Will Take Place on October 22nd

Photo Review Holds Major Auction in Philadelphia on Nov. 7th

Millon Will Auction off 19th and 20th-Century Images Tomorrow, Oct. 13th, in Paris, Including Important Brassai Tapestry

Stephen C. Pinson Named Curator in Department of Photographs at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art

George Eastman House Is Renamed George Eastman Museum, and Gets a New Website

Daguerreian Society's 19th-Century Photography Auction and Trade Fair will be held on November 7, 2015 in Pasadena, CA

Photo Books: Forty Years of Nixon, Twenty of Langer, Williams’s Stirring Songs, Spagnoli’s Heirlooms

Interview and Photo Exhibit: Magnus Arrevad and 'Boy Story'

E-Photo Newsletter #218
8/29/2015

Daguerreian Society Annual Conference and 19th-century Photography Fair to Be Held Nov. 5-8 at the Hilton Pasadena

Skinner Holds Photo Auction on Sept. 11th in Boston

Peabody Essex Museum appoints Kennel as Curator of Photography

Russell joins Heritage Auctions as Director of Photographs, NYC

Santa Barbara Museum Curator Karen Sinsheimer Dies of Cancer

Photo Books: From Julia Margaret Cameron to Sally Mann, and The Plot Thickens

E-Photo Newsletter #217
7/13/2015

London Spring Auction Report: A Mixed Bag

Daguerreian Society Schedules Symposium and Photography Fair in Pasadena, CA for early Nov.; Early Bird Discounts End Soon

Paris Photo LA Renewed for 2016, But Why?

Pity the Poor French: Minister Of Culture Proposes Bureaucratic National Photography Council; Fires Controversial Head of Paris School of Fine Arts Precipitously

Photo Books: America in Disrepair, and Other Portrayals of Modern Times

Photographs for the Animal Lovers for Sale on I Photo Central

E-Photo Newsletter #216
6/4/2015

Photography is back big time in London with relaunch of Photo London at Somerset House and the London Photograph Fair at 2 Temple Place nearby

Photographer Mary Ellen Mark passes away

Romantic Agony Auction Launches Photography Auctions: First Auction is June 19th and 20th and online; previews in Paris and Brussels

Photo Book Reviews: Ruskin's Lost Daguerreotypes, George Segal in Black and White, and Time's Memory

Daguerreian and photo book dealer Harvey Zucker passes away after long illness

Former Disgraced Sotheby's Chairman dies at 91

E-Photo Newsletter #215
5/7/2015

Vintage Strength and More Sizzle for 35th AIPAD New York Photography Show as Audience for the Fair Grows

Modern and Contemporary Photography Goes on Sale at Villa Grisebach Auction in Berlin on June

Millon Will Auction off 19th and 20th-Century Images, along with Contemporary Photographs on Wednesday, May 15th in Paris

E-Photo Newsletter #214
3/12/2015

35th Edition of AIPAD Photography Show New York Opens With 89 Top International Photo Art Dealers

I Photo Central Dealers Exhibit Top Works at AIPAD NYC Show

A Bad November and Belated Farewell to Good Friends: Rudolf Kicken, Lucien Clergue and Robert Long

Photo Book Reviews: Thomas Struth in the Holy Land, Alexander Gardner's West, Photographic Theory:An Historical Anthology