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E-Photo Newsletter #183
9/9/2011

E-Photo Newsletter #182
8/5/2011

Westlicht Breaks Camera Records and Briefly Daguerreotype Records For Europe

Beaussant Lefevre Sale Breaks Dag Records; Totals Over $2 Million With 83% Sold Rate

Le Gray Sale Sets 19th-Century Photo Record--Briefly--At Over $1.3 Million to Texas Oil Man

Billy The Kid Tintype Sells to William Koch For $2.3 Million At Western Auction Making It The Most Expensive 19th-Century Photo

Art 42 Basel 2011: An Artist's View

AIPAD Announces New Show Dates For 2012 and Membership Changes

Second Benefit Auction For George Eastman House Scheduled For Oct. 3 At Metropolitan Pavilion, New York City

Afternoon Program On Collecting Is Part of The Annual Slowexposures Photography Festival, Which Runs Sept. 16-25, South of Atlanta, GA

Eastman House Director Bannon to Retire

Photo Books: Important Two-Volume Set On Europe Photographic History

Photo News Shorts

Major Collector Howard Stein Passes Away Due to Stroke and Complications

E-Photo Newsletter #181
5/31/2011

Strong NY Auctions Herald Market Rebound: Sotheby's Lead-Off Spring Auction Totals Over $5.6 Million But With Only 18.5% Buy-in Rate

Christie's New York's Two Single-Owner Sales Bring in a Total of Nearly $2.8 Million With Mapplethorpe Flag The Top Lot At $158,500

Christie's Multi-Owner Auction Tops $5.3 Million; Adding The Two Single-Owner Sales Boosts Christie's Total to Over $8.1 Million

Phillips De Pury Surprises With The Highest Net Multi-Owner Sale of The Spring Auctions At Over $5.8 Million and With Only 9.6% Buy-In

Swann's May Auction Totals Just Under $1 Million With Large Buy-in Rate of 37%

Cindy Sherman Self-Portrait Sets World Record For Photograph At Christie's, Bringing $3,890,500

MOMA's Peter Galassi Retires

George Eastman House Will Hold Its Second Benefit Auction On Oct. 3rd in NYC At The Metropolitan Pavilion

Over 110 Important New Photographs Up in The Last Month On I Photo Central's Web Site; Many Special Exhibits Revised and Updated

Photo Books: Soth's America; Erwitt's Big Small Stuff

Apeiron Workshops Reunion Scheduled For Labor Day Weekend in Ashvile, NC

AIPAD Dealer Helps Recover Stolen Drtikol

Czech Photographer Miroslav Tichy Dies At 84

"Some Photographs Taken in France" At Diemar/Noble Photography

Contacting Me During My Summer Europe Trip

Amon Carter Promotes Jessica May to Assoc. Curator of Photographs

Slowexposures' Submissions Close June 15Th

Manheim Has Two Exhibitions Scheduled

E-Photo Newsletter #180
3/14/2011

E-Photo Newsletter Names Its List of The Most Influential Photography Sources in 2010-2011

AIPAD's New York Photography Show Kicks Off This Week At The Park Avenue Armory, New York

Be-hold Auction On March 23rd, But Previews Held During AIPAD At Salmagundi Art Club

Slowexposures Call For Photographer's Work

2011 ICP Infinity Awards Announced

Emily Allchurch's 'Tokyo Story' Opens At Diemar/Noble Photography, London

E-Photo Newsletter #179
3/2/2011

AIPAD's Photography Show New York Kicks Off March 16-20 With Nearly 80 Photography Dealers At The Park Avenue Armory, NYC

Four I Photo Central Dealers Will Exhibit Rare Photographs At AIPAD's NY Show

Los Angeles Museum and Getty Trust Jointly Acquire Collection of Mapplethorpe Works and Letters

Photo News in Brief

Czech 20th-Century Photos, Croatia's Photo Poet, Daguerre's Problem, and The Photo League

Photography Obituaries

E-Photo Newsletter #178
1/5/2011

Photo L.A. Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary From January 13-17, 2011, in Santa Monica; William Eggleston and Stephen Shore Will Be The Honored Guests At Thursday Night Benefit Preview For Lacma Photo Dept.

Contemporary Works / Vintage Works Will Be Exhibiting At Photo LA in Booth B-401

Miami Art Week Sees Strong Activity and Big Crowds as Economy Floats Back

AIPAD Announces Dates For Show, March 16-20, and Adds Six New Members

Swann's December Auction Brings in $842,937; But Sells Only 61% of The Lots

Graham Nash Visits Eastman House On Jan. 22 to Be Named Honorary Scholar

AXA Awards Photo Conservation Grant

Photo Gallery Celebrates 40th Anniversary

E-Photo Newsletter #177
12/11/2010

Photo L.A. Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary From January 13-17, 2011, in Santa Monica, With Big Changes, Adding Another Day to Its Schedule and a New Tented Canopy Entry, and Joining With Artla Projects

Christie's Girault De Prangey Sale Sells Well and Nearly Tops $3 Million

Phillips De Pury's Best Sale in Several Years Nearly Nets $4 Million and Sells 78%

Swann's Oct. 19th Auction Breaks Over $1.1 Million With Help From Rare Albums and Portfolios

Soler Y Llach to Hold Two-Session Photo Auction of 470 Lots On Dec. 15th

Philadelphia Museum of Art Buys Strand Collection Through Aperture

Holiday Book Sale Continues and Vintage Works Adds a Half-Price Holiday Sale Until December 25th

Photo Book Reviews: Lives On Both Sides of The Divide

Diemar/Noble Opens "Big Bucks, Big Bangs" Exhibit in January in London

E-Photo Newsletter #176
11/18/2010

Art Miami, Coming Up The Week After Thanksgiving, Will Feature Many Photo Dealers At The Fair, Which Runs From Nov. 30-Dec. 5

Christie's Sells Over $5-1/2 Million and 75% By Lot At Mid-October Sale in NYC

Villa Grisebach Photo Auction Scheduled Nov. 25th in Berlin With Approx. 200 Lots

Bassenge Photography 499-Lot Auction to Be Held On Dec. 1st

Over 125 Important New Photographs Up in The Last Month On I Photo Central's Web Site

London Photograph Fair Under New Ownership in 2011

Holiday Book Sale On I Photo Central Ends Next Month On December 19th

Photo Books: Steichen's Hues, Fielding's Children

Photos Wanted

Phillips De Pury Announces Two Photo Promotions; and a Charity Exhibit and Auction On Nov. 23rd

E-Photo Newsletter #175
10/24/2010

Miami's Original Contemporary Art Fair Returns For Its 21st Edition

Benefit Auction At Sotheby's Raises Over $650,000 For George Eastman House

Sotheby's NYC Fall Auction Brings in Nearly $5 Million and Sells 75% By Lot

Binoche Renaud Giquello Offers 249-Lot Sale On Nov. 18th in Paris

Photo L.A. Celebrates 20th Anniversary Jan. 13-16, 2011 At Santa Monica Civic Center

Photo Review Auction Held Nov. 6th At Philadelphia's Univ. of The Arts

Photo Book Reviews: French Calotypes, Warhol Am a Camera, Objects of Desire

E-Photo Newsletter #174
9/14/2010

The Polaroid Auction: a Not So Instant History

News On Artists Represented By Contemporary Works/Vintage Works

Latest Be-hold Auction Focuses On 20th-Century American Photographs

George Eastman House Benefit Auction Online and At Sotheby's NYC October 4th

Diemar/Noble Opens New Bravo Show in London On Sept. 15th

Special Exhibits Go Up On I Photo Central; Over 165 New Photographs Posted Up

Tintype Archetypes, and a Revisited "Slow Burn"

E-Photo Newsletter #173
8/16/2010

Photo Market Recovers in Spring Auctions: Sotheby's Sale Leads Off With a Total of $5,081,265 and a Nearly 82% Sold Rate; Selling Weston Shell For Over $1 Million

Irving Penn's Soar At Christie's Auction, Totaling Over $3.8 Million and 100% Sold

Baio Collection Breaks Over $1.4 Million and Sets New Atget Record At $686,500

Christie's Multi-Owner Sale Breaks Over $4 Million Mark With Nearly 87% Sold

Phillips De Pury Does Well With Nearly $3.5 Million Sold, But With 39.3% Buy-In

Joanna Steichen, 3rd Wife of Edward Steichen, Passes Away in Montauk, NY

Over 250 New Photographs Up in The Last Month On I Photo Central's Web Site

E-Photo Newsletter #172
5/22/2010

Barcelona Auction House to Sell Work of Two Photojournalism Giants: Cartier-Bresson and Agustí Centelles

Villa Grisebach Has 180 Photo Lots At Auction in Berlin (and Online) On June 3

Mapplethorpe, Penn, Avedon and Leibovitz Highlight Dallas Art Photography Auction

Belgium Auction House Pierre Berge Holds Major Photo Auction On June 16

Books From Lodima Press and Rijskmuseum

Special Exhibits Go Up On I Photo Central

E-Photo Newsletter #171
4/25/2010

150 International Art Galleries Join Art Chicago 2010, April 29-May 3

30th AIPAD New York Photo Show Kicks Off Spring With Impressive Results and Points to Resurgence in The Market

Swann March Auction Hits Just Under Million Dollar Mark, With 60% Sold

Diemar/Noble Opens "Threads", a Major Fashion Photography Show in London, Including The Work of Six Masters

Major Gallery Show of Horst and Hoyningen-Huene in San Francisco

Obituaries: Jim Marshall, Jim Steinhardt and Charles Moore Pass Away Last Month

E-Photo Newsletter #170
3/10/2010

Art and Photography Market Bounces Back as Shows and Dealers Report More Sales in 2010

30th AIPAD Show Hits The Park Avenue Armory On March 17-21 With Over 75 Photo Dealers

I Photo Central Dealers Charles Schwartz, Contemporary Works/Vintage Works, and Andrew Smith Gallery Will Exhibit At The AIPAD Show At The Park Ave. Armory in NYC

Photo Catalogues: Bayard's Living Light

Magnum Archive Collection of Nearly 200,000 Press Prints Comes to The Harry Ransom Center

Magnum Reports That Dennis Stock Has Died

Photography Curator Anita V. Mozley Dies At 81

Portrait Photographer Fabian Bachrach Dies of Pneumonia in Newton, MA

E-Photo Newsletter #169
1/11/2010

Photo L.A. Programming Details Fill Out; Exhibit Show Kicks Off This Week At New-Old Venue of The Santa Monica Civic Center

Be-hold's Auction Will Intersect With Major Photography Exhibitions and Presentations

Recent Photo Dealer Catalogues

E-Photo Newsletter #168
1/6/2010

19th Annual Photo L.A. Runs Jan. 14th Until Jan. 17th At Santa Monica Civic Center With Hosts David Lachapelle and Actor Chris Lowell as Hosts

Fall Itinerary Is a Full One With Dag Society Meeting, Paris Photo, Auctions Galore, and Art Basel Miami Week First Stop: Daguerreian Society Symposium and Trade Show in Philly

On to Paris: The Ilse Bing Auction

Over 300 New Photos Go Up On I Photo Central

Two Prints of Ansel Adams "Moonrise" Top Swann Dec. 8th Auction, Which Breaks Over $1.1 Million, Selling 66%

Cowan's Dec. Sale Breaks Over $665,000, With Several Important Photo Lots Breaching $20,000 Mark

Remembered as Weston's Muse, Charis Wilson Passes Away in Santa Cruz At Home of Friend

Shpilman Art and Culture Foundation Endows Biennial Prize to Catalyze Groundbreaking Work in Photography

Calif. Conceptual Photographer Larry Sultan Dies of Cancer

Hollywood Photographer Bob Willoughby Dies of Cancer

E-Photo Newsletter #167
12/26/2009

A Lesson For The Holidays, and The Rest of The Year: The Gift of Balancing The Scale

E-Photo Newsletter #166
11/12/2009

Christie's Multi-Owner Auction Nets $3,439,225 With 74.5% Sold Rate

Sotheby's Sale Tops $3-3/4 Million and Sells Nearly 75% of Its Lots

Swann Totals $1,303,148 and Sells 75% of Its Lots

Annual Holiday Sale On I Photo Central Runs Only Until Dec. 18

Daguerreian Society Annual Symposium and Trade Show Coming Up in Philadelphia This Week

Diemar/Noble Plan Exhibition Of Yvonne De Rosa's 'Crazy God' Work In 2010 In Its London Gallery

Photos From Arab Image Foundation Collection to Be Shown At Paris Photo 2009 in Central Exhibition Space of Fair

Marty Forscher, Camera Repairman, Passes Away in Pittsfield At 87

E-Photo Newsletter #165
11/2/2009

Annual Holiday Sale On I Photo Central Runs From Nov. 1-Dec. 18

NYC Auction Season Surprisingly Strong For Most of The Houses: Bloomsbury Only Exception as It Sells Less Than 18% of Its Photos, But Does Better On Books At 63.8%

Christie's Kicks Off 4 Auctions With More From Berman Collection; Sells 88% of Lots and Totals $1.5 Million+

Christie's Sells Single-Owner Collection of Sally Mann Images

Miller-Plummer Collection Sells For $1.8+ Million With 76% Sold By Lot At Christie's

Villa Grisebach Photo Auction Scheduled Nov. 26 With 180 Lots

Bassenge Photography 450-Lot Auction to Be Held On Dec. 2nd

Photo Review Auction Rescheduled For November 21st in Philadelphia

Photographer Roy Decarava Dies At 89 in New York City

Phillips Moves to Bonhams From Sotheby's to Head New Photo Dept.

Best Wishes to Get Well

E-Photo Newsletter #164
10/24/2009

Irving Penn Passes Away At Home in Manhattan At The Age of 92

Major Collection of Ilse Bing Photos to Be Auction in Paris On Nov. 16th

Daguerreian Society Has Annual Conference and Trade Show in Philadelphia, November 11-15

AIPAD Announces New York Show Dates and Eight New Members

I Photo Central Dealers Announce Artist Exhibitions, News and Events

French Photographer Willy Ronis Passes Away At 99 After Being Honored At Arles in July

Hasted Hunt Adds New Partner and Reopens in Space Formerly Occupied By Charles Cowles

Auction to Benefit The Photo Review to Be Held On Nov. 21st; Can Now Be Viewed On Line

Photo Conservator Jose Orraca Passes Away

Photographer and Educator Jerry Burchfield Dies From Colon Cancer

Ted Kuykendall Dies in Roswell, NM

Photo Books: OuterbridgeAhead of His Time; Howe Explores; Darfur Reminds Us

E-Photo Newsletter #163
8/3/2009

An American in Europe: a Very Rambling (Hopefully Interesting) Perspective On Photography, Part Two: France and Switzerland

Paris Auctions: Stone Auction Outperforms Expectations With 86% Sold For a Total of $525,000

Piasa Auction Sells Just Over 50% Mark, Totaling 265,000 Euro

A Pleasant Trip Out to Normandy For a Photography-Oriented Picnic, But Not Without Incident

Art Basel, Still The Art Show For The World, Despite Lack of American Collectors

Bièvres and "See Italy and Die"

Villa Grisebach's Auction Sells Nearly 73% of Its Lots and Totals Over 370,000 Euro

Keeping You Up To Date On Contemporary Works' Photographers And Their Work

Photo Books: Leonard Photo Memoir and Fraenkel's Edward Hopper & Company

Noted Architectural Photographer Julius Shulman Dies in L.A. At Age 98

Job Opening For Photography Specialist, New York City

E-Photo Newsletter #162
7/10/2009

An American in Europe: a Very Rambling (Hopefully Interesting) Perspective On Photography, With Auction Tallies From London, Paris and a Report From Art Basel; Part One: London

Sotheby's London Sale: Mediocre Results For Mediocre Material

Christie's Photo Book Sale: Nothing to Write Home About

Bloomsbury Auctions Still Looking For Its Groove

Over 330 New Photos and Books, Plus Special Exhibits Go Up On I Photo Central

Photographer Jennie Gunhammar Dies After Documenting Illness

Photography Books and Catalogues

Photo News Briefs

E-Photo Newsletter #161
5/16/2009

Spring Auctions in The Doldrums

Villa Grisebach's June Photo Auction Features Mies Van Der Rohe Photography

Soler Y Llach of Barcelona to Auction Off Over 400 Lots of Photographs and Photo Books Over Two Sessions On May 28th

German Photo Team of Cami and Sasha Stone's Studio Archives Goes Up For Sale At Argenteuil

Curator, Author and Photographer Bill Jay Passes Away in His Sleep

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

Photo Book Reviews: Social History of Photography, and 19th-Century Antwerp in Pictures, Plus Three Other Gems

In Other Photography News: Auction Moves

Griffin Museum Announces 4th Annual Focus Award Recipients

Levitt Honored With Endowment Fund, Promised Gift of Her Photos to NY Met

Humbert Van Es, Dutch Photographer, Dies in Hong Kong At Age 67; Famed For Image of Vietnam's Last Days

E-Photo Newsletter #160
4/17/2009

AIPAD Show Boosts Market Psychology, as Attendance Maintains Record Level and Final Results Please Most Exhibitors

Art Chicago Kicks Off April 30th At Merchandise Mart, and Runs May 1-4

Contemporary Works/Vintage Worksto Exhibit At Art Chicago in Booth 12-513

Be-hold Stages Its First Ever Live Auction in New York City On April 28th With 160 Lots

Spring Online Photo Auction Set For May 13th On iGavel

Deimar/Noble Photography Opens New Gallery in London On May 7th With Jennie Gunhammar Exhibition

Robert Mann Gallery to Relocate to Manhattan Upper East Side

Three Major Photographers Pass Away At End of March: Helen Levitt, Pirkle Jones and Gianni Giansanti

Photo Book Review: Catalogue Argues For a Reconsideration of Pictorialism

E-Photo Newsletter #159
4/1/2009

Republicans Go One Up On Democrats and Pass New Stimulus Package For The Arts With Help of a Few Blue Dog Democrats

AIPAD Photography New York Show Clobbered Again, as Insects Invade Park Ave. Armory Venue in Wave of Destruction

Auction Market For High-End Contemporary Photography Crashes: Andreas Gursky's 99-Cent Dyptich Now Only Worth 98-Cents; Auction Houses Raise Premium Fees to 100%

AIG Financial Services Managers Decide to Give Away Bonus Money to Support The Arts By Buying Up All of Damien Hirst's "Art"

Photography Quotes of The Month

April Fool!

Responses to Newsletter #159

E-Photo Newsletter #158
3/15/2009

Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary, The AIPAD Show Kicks Off Next Week From March 25-29 At The Park Avenue Armory in NYC With Over 75 Dealers and a Full Educational Program

Four I Photo Central Member Dealers to Show Key Work At AIPAD Next Week

Congress Votes Some Additional Funds to Nea, But Is It Enough to Help Beleagered Art Museums and Non-Profits?

Photography Book Reviews: Portraits By Mapplethorpe

AIPAD Show Tips For Attendees

E-Photo Newsletter #157
2/12/2009

U.S. Congress Votes Against The Arts, Calling Them Unimportant to The Economy

Getty Conservation Institute Develops New Methods For Identifying and Authenticating Photographs

Photography in Virginia; British Calotypes and Many Other Photo Books and Catalogues

E-Photo Newsletter #156
2/6/2009

Photo LA Kicks Off 2009 With a Large, Enthusiastic Crowd, But Moderate Sales

Phillips De Pury Gets Purchased By Russian 'Luxury' Group And Gets New Ceo, Who Was Reportedly A Stasi Informant

AIPAD and AXA Insurance Team Up For New York Photography Show

eBay Forces Buyers and Sellers to Use PayPal Virtually Exclusively

Richard Prince Sued Again For Copyright Infringement

Other Photography News

A Gorgeous Tome, Plus Some Serious Catalogues, Including Work By Brandt, Evans, and Hill & Adamson

More Photos and Special Exhibits Added This Month to I Photo Central

Facebook Community Building For Photography Groups

E-Photo Newsletter #155
1/2/2009

Photo LA Opens On Jan. 8th At Barker Hanger At Santa Monica Airport and Will Run Through Sunday, January 11th

Christie's Constantiner Collection Auction Nearly Grosses $7-3/4 Million, Most Sold in a Single-Owner Sale There

AIPAD Show Formally Announces New March Dates and Gala Preview

Latest News On Contemporary Works' Artists: Tress, Holden, Birgus, Dobrowner And Abadzic

New Limited Edition Artist Books With Prints Announced By Contemporary Works For Arthur Tress and Lisa Holden

AIPAD Announces New President, Officers and Member Galleries

Other Photography News

Girault De Prangey's Daguerreotypes

E-Photo Newsletter #154
12/23/2008

A Holiday Message

Responses to Our Holiday Message