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E-Photo Newsletter #153
12/5/2008

E-Photo Newsletter #152
11/10/2008

Swann Photo Auction Sells Nearly $1.56 Million, With 73% Of Lots Sold

Bassenge Holds Two Photography Sales On December 3rd in Berlin, Including Soviet War Photographs

Van Ham Holds Photo Auction in Cologne On December 5th

Holiday Sales Now On View On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 19th

Other Upcoming Auction Reminders

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

White House Photographer Stoughton, Who Took Famed Photo of Swearing in of L.B.J. With Jackie Kennedy, Passes Away

Photo Book Reviews: Two Snapshot Compilations--a Dichotomy of Daily Life

Photo News Briefs

E-Photo Newsletter #151
10/29/2008

Heritage Auction Holds First Art Photography Auction in Dallas, Dec. 12

Bloomsbury Auctions to Hold Two-Part Auction On November 2oth in London

Holiday Sales On View Beginning Nov. 1st On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 19th

Lee Friedlander Special Exhibit, Book Signing and Gallery Show At Andrew Smith Gallery in Santa Fe, Nm

Other Auction Reminders

Three Photo Books For Your Library: Sculpture, Paulin and Chamlee

Collector Herb Mitchell Passes Away; Collection Goes to NY Met

Photojournalist Alex Rivera Dies At 95

Our First (and Probably Only) Political Endorsement: Barack Obama For President

E-Photo Newsletter #150
10/20/2008

Our 150th Issue of The E-Photo Newsletter

The Auctions and The Market: a Quick Overview From New York City

Villa Grisebach Holds Auction Nov. 27th

Holiday Sales On View Beginning Nov. 1st On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 19th

Two New Photo Books By Henry Horenstein

Photo Review Auction Now Online

Photographer William Claxton Dies

E-Photo Newsletter #149
10/9/2008

Phillips De Pury & Co. Announces Partnership With Mercury Group

Israel Museum Receives One of World's Most Important Private Photography Collections

Swann Holds Major Auction On Oct. 21; Previews Run Oct. 16-21 in New York City

Be-hold Online and Catalogue Photo Auction to Be Held On Oct. 30th At 2 Pm

Doina Popescu Named First Director of New Ryerson Photo Gallery and Research Centre

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

Carnegie Museum of Art Creates New Photo Department and Hires New Curator

E-Photo Newsletter #148
9/28/2008

Quillan "Leaf" Controversy: Does Sotheby's Go Overboard With Its AuctionPromotion? Is Photo History The Victim?

What to Do to Protect Yourself When Making Purchases At Auctions

Some Thoughts Concerning The Henry Bright Album's Photogenic Drawings

On The Economy

Calling It "The Final Installment", Sotheby's Schedules Jammes Part 4 Sale For Paris On November 15, 2008

Photo News Briefs

Updates On I Photo Central Website

Photo Books: Coming of Rage; Dancing Walls; Vernacular to The Masters; and Two Historical Dutch Volumes

Auction to Benefit The Photo Review

E-Photo Newsletter #147
8/4/2008

Phillips Single-Owner Sales Hit Some Bumps

Phillips Various Owner Sale Hit Just Under $1-3/4 Million With High 37.3% Buy-in Rate

Christie's Photo Book Sale Big Success:Brings in $2,602,450 With Only 8% Buy-Ins

Christie's Elfering Sale Totals $4,373,200; Nude of Carla Bruni, Sarkozy's Wife, Draws Heavy Media Attention and Silly Bid

The Berman Collection Arbus Sale At Christie's Is a 100% Sell Out and Brings in $1,372,000 From The Auction

Christie's Various Owners Auction Totals $4,682,875, But With a High 33% Buy-in Rate

Christie's Sale of Ansel Adams Collection Brings in $4,678,000, But Who Will It Go to?

AIPAD Cancels Miami Show and Moves Its NY Armory Show to End of March

Photo Book Review: E.O. Hoppé's Australia

Photo Review Summer Garden Party

E-Photo Newsletter #146
7/24/2008

Quillan Collection Sale At Sotheby's Totals $17.3 Million; and Raises Issue as to Who Exactly Owned The Photos

Sotheby's April 8th Sale of "Edward Weston's Gifts to His Sister" and Other Photographs Brings in $1.5+ Million

Sotheby's Regular Spring Sale Hits Just Under $7 Million, With Strong 90% Sold Rate, Helping Auction House to Set New Season Record For Photos

Jammes IV to Go Up At Sotheby's Paris in November

Andrew Smith Gallery Joins I Photo Central, Adding Thousands of Photographers and Images

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

Photo Book Review: American Photobooth

Photographer Lutz Dille Dies in France

E-Photo Newsletter #145
7/1/2008

Auction Houses Raise Buyer's Premiums Yet Again, as 20% Mark Now Goes to $1 Million

Bloomsbury Auctions Launches NYC Photography Department

Cornell Capa, Photographer and Founding Director of NYC's International Center of Photography, Passes Away

Sotheby's Tries to Raise $300 Million to Retire Shorter Term Debt and Repurchase York Ave. Headquarters

Over 200 New Photos Added to I Photo Central; as Special Exhibits Are Also Updated With New Images

Editorial: Orphan Work and Copyright Laws

Philip Perkis: Sadness of Men

E-Photo Newsletter #144
5/9/2008

Artcurial Auction Features Rare Autochromes and Hundreds of Other Photographs in Its May 27th Paris Sale

Bloomsbury Auctions First AuctionUnder New Photo Dept. Goes Off On May 22nd in London With a 230-Lot Sale

Anderson Mississippi Photographs Acquired By New Smithsonian Museum

May Auction Help For London and Paris

Photography Shorts…

E-Photo Newsletter #143
4/21/2008

Art Chicago 2008 Attracts 181 Int'l Art And Photography Galleries; Opens Thursday

Villa Grisebach Photography Auction Scheduled On May 29th

Swann Schedules Photo Literature and Photography Sale For May 15th in NYC

Over 400 Books/Photographs At Auction At Van Ham Auctions On June 14th in Cologne

Prices Go Up May 1st For 4 Photographers; Schreiner Featured in Exhibit and Magazines; Holden's Bathers An Artnet Pick

Auction Help For London and Paris

Photography Shorts…

E-Photo Newsletter #142
3/25/2008

AIPAD NYC Show Opens in Just Two Weeks, April 10-13; Benefit On Thursday, April 9

Over 155 New Photos and Book, Plus Two Special Exhibits Go Up On I Photo Central

Photo London Cancelled

Philip Jones Griffiths Dies, Leaving An Anti-War Legacy

Prices To Rise On Three Artists' Work; Kunin Show Up Until The End Of The Month

Review: Weston Book of Nudes

Scheinbaum to Head New Photo Dept.

Lorraine Davis Joins Heritage Auctions

E-Photo Newsletter #141
3/10/2008

Photo Art Market: Up? Down? or How About--Like The Movie--Sideways?

AIPAD NYC Show Runs From April 10-13; Benefit Opens Show On Thursday, April 9

Drapkin Collection Spawns New Book

Photo News Shorts

E-Photo Newsletter #140
2/20/2008

Daytime Portion of Sotheby's Multi-Owner Sale Spotlights Watkins and Weston Images

Be-hold Auction's Part I Held This Thursday, Feb. 21st; Part II Sells Mar. 13th On eBay Live

Houston AIPAD Dealer John Cleary Succumbs to Pancreatic Cancer

Photo Book Review: Photofile Series

E-Photo Newsletter #139
1/3/2008

Report From Miami: Art Basel's Decadence, Balanced By AIPAD's Vintage and Large-Scale Contemp and Photo Miami's "Energy/Nerve"

Richard Prince's Marlboro Man Sets World Record of $3.4 Million For Photo At Auction

Artcurial Sets New World Record For 19th-Century Lot At Auction, as Le Gray Chalon Album Goes For Over $1 Million

Sotheby's Nancy Richardson Sale Takes in $1-3/4 Million, With Only 12.5% Buy-Ins

Photo LA Moves Dates and Venue to Jan. 10-13 and The Barker Hanger At Nearby Santa Monica Airport

Over 130 New Images Posted to I Photo Central Website

Photographer and Teacher Jack Welpott Passes Away At 84

Photo Books and Catalogues: Howard Greenberg, Photoshop, Japan and Kasebier

Westlicht Sets New Auction Record For Leica After Setting Record For Highest Priced Camera in May 2007

Photographer/Cinematographers Arrested

Matthieu Humery Joins Christie's NYC

NY Met Acquires Arbus Archive

E-Photo Newsletter #138
12/16/2007

Holiday Greetings to All Our Clients and Newsletter Readers

Births, Deaths and Other News

Holiday Sale On Photos and Books On I Photo Central Extended One More Week

Photo Book: Odalisques & Arabesques

E-Photo Newsletter #137
12/4/2007

AIPAD Miami Photo Show Opens Tonight At 6 Pm and Runs Through Dec. 9 in Miami's Wynwood Art District

Less Than Two Weeks Left On Holiday Sale On Photos and Books On I Photo Central

Nearly 200 New Photos Added to I Photo Central; Plus Special Exhibits

Lodima Press Portfolios Reviewed

E-Photo Newsletter #136
11/16/2007

Holiday Sales Now On View On I Photo Central Website Until Dec. 15th

AIPAD Miami Show Coming Up Quickly With Preview On Dec. 4, From 6-10 P.M.

Photo LA Moves Dates and Venue to Jan. 10-13 and The Barker Hanger At Nearby Santa Monica Airport

Lucien Clergue Honored as First Photographer Named a Member of The French Academy Des Beaux Arts

E-Photo Newsletter #135
10/31/2007

Swann Has Record Photo Auction, Selling Its 1st Million-Dollar-Plus Lot and Exceeding $2 Million For The First Time

Two Villa Grisebach Photography Auctions Scheduled On Nov. 29th

Artcurial Holds Two-Part Photo Auction in Paris On Nov. 17th and 19th

Photo Review's Preview and Auction

New Book By Keith Davis On Early American Photography Has a "Remarkable Narrative Drive"

E-Photo Newsletter #134
10/5/2007

Contemporary Works Exhibiting At AIPAD Miami Photo Show, Dec. 4-9 ; Art Basel Miami Week Is World's Biggest Photography Event

Nearly 300 New Photos Added to I Photo Central; Plus Special Exhibit

Auction Guidance and Bidding Help Available

Strong Swann Auction to Be Held Oct. 15th At 2:30 Pm in New York City

More Than 400 Books/Photographs Sold By Van Ham Auctions On Nov. 28th in Cologne

Garry Winogrand At Deborah Bell

Timely China Images From Michael Wolf

Upcoming Charity Auctions: Insight On Oct. 5 in Brattleboro, Vt; and Photo Review in Philly On Nov. 10th, With NYC Preview Oct. 18-20

Aperture And AIPAD Present Collectors' Day Of Conversation And Dialogue On Collecting Photography On Oct. 14Th

Photographer Janine Niepce Passes Away

E-Photo Newsletter #133
8/29/2007

Prince and Sherman Are Top Photography Performers At Spring NYC Contemporary Art Auctions

Photo Miami 2007 Moves to New Location in Wynwood Art District, Runs Dec. 4-9, 2007; Combined With AIPAD Show, This Will Be Largest Offering of Photography in The World

Jack Naylor Photographica Collection Goes Up For Auction At Guernsey's On October 18-21

Be-hold's 50th Catalogue and Internet Auction Scheduled For Sept. 20th; New NYC Preview Venue

Ginns' Photographica Absentee Bid Sale Set For Sept. 15Th, Featuring Rare Equipment And Early Images

Auction Houses Raise Buyers' Fees Again For The Second Time This Year

Sotheby's May Have to Look For New Digs in New York City or Perhaps It Will Just Buy Back Its Headquarters

News On Contemporary Works' Artists

Over 230 New Photos Added to I Photo Central; Plus Special Exhibits On Barbara Morgan and C. J. Laughlin

Ted Jones, Master of The Gum Bichromate Print, Passes Away

Kicken 30th Anniversary Catalog Is An Assemblage of 140 Images and Extraordinary Commentary

Photo Review Summer Garden Party Coming Up Saturday, September 8th

E-Photo Newsletter #132
8/1/2007

Maggi Weston Sale Nets Over $7.8 Million At Sotheby's, With Only a 20% Buy-in Rate

Sotheby's Multi-Owner Sale Caps Off Record Auction Season With Over $5.2 Million and 7.7% Buy-Ins

Claudia Kunin and Her Allegorical "Holy Ghost" Series Added to Roster of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works

Photo Book Reviews: Mona Kuhn, Karel Kuklik, and Images of Maori

Directors Bergman and Antonioni Died This Week

NY Met Gets New Contemp Photo Gallery

E-Photo Newsletter #131
7/23/2007

AIPAD's Photography Show--Miami Will Debut Dec. 4-9, 2007 in Wynwood Art District in New 30,000 Sq. Ft. Venue

Phillips Forces Out Wester and Newlin in Shocking Move to Photo Auction Market

Phillips' "27 Exceptional Photographs" Sale Averages $190,000 Per Lot--Highest Ever In Photography Auction; Over $3.6 Million Sold

Phillips' Single And Various Owner Sales Do Very Well, Bringing In Additional $6.8 Million

Photographer Mitch Dobrowner's Western Landscapes Added to Roster of Contemporary Works/Vintage Works

Special Exhibits Go Up On I Photo Central

Summer Viewing: Joseph, Vicomte Vigier; John Humble; and Anonymous Snapshots

Weltanschauung/Worldview: The Photography of Leonard Freed

Two Art and History Photography Courses Announced For Fall

E-Photo Newsletter #130
7/18/2007

John Szarkowski Passes Away Due to Stroke's Complications

Ted Hartwell, Minneapolis Institute of Arts Curator, Dies After Heart Attack

Christie's NY's Multi-Owner Spring Sale Brings in Nearly $7.4 Million

Bernd Becher Dies After Heart Surgery

The Problem With a Collector-Driven Art Market and Non-Discriminating Curators and Generalist Dealers

Exhibition Review: Developing Greatness: Origins of American Photography, 1839 -1885

New Books: Stanko Abadzik

E-Photo Newsletter #129
6/16/2007

Christie's Two April 23rd Evening Sales Net Over $3.79 Million

Contemporary Works Adds 3 New Photographers: Vladimir Birgus, Samer Mohdad and Michael Manheim

Bassenge Auctions Will Have Two Sales With Over 500 Photos On June 21-22

Nearly 300 New Photos Added to I Photo Central; Plus Special Exhibits

Rudolf Arnheim, Psychologist and Art Scholar, Dies At 102

The ICP Throws a Summer Party and Auction On June 21st in NYC

New Books: E.O. Hoppé, Art Shay, and History of The Woodburytype

Odds and Ends

E-Photo Newsletter #128
6/4/2007

Cindy Sherman's "Film Stills": An Evaluation Nearly 30 Years After

Sotheby's Triumphs With Cuvelier Sale, Which Brings in Nearly $3 Million

E-Photo Newsletter #126
5/18/2007

Art Chicago 2007 Pulls in 132 Top Art Dealers; and Over 42,000 Attendees Make It to The Five Shows At Artropolis

The Armory and Volta Shows and Merchandise Mart Properties Announce "Strategic Partnerships"

Spring Sale Continues Online On I Photo Central Until May 31st

Prices to Be Increased On Several Photographers Represented By Contemporary Works On June 15th

Thames & Hudson Republishes Photo Poche Series; New Catalogue On Marcel Marien's Dadaist Photos; Zimbel's "Bourbon Street"

E-Photo Newsletter #125
5/4/2007

Spring Sale Now On View On I Photo Central Until May 31st

Two-Part Spring Auction Held By Artcurial in Paris On May 15 and 16

Amon Carter Museum Closes For Repairs to Fire Suppression System

New Book On Photo Postcards

E-Photo Newsletter #124
4/22/2007

AIPAD's 2007 New York Photography Show Another Hit, Despite The Weather

Art Chicago Runs April 26-30; Contemporary Works/Vintage Works Shows in Booth 7-4022

Berman Collection: Books and Catalogues

E-Photo Newsletter #123
4/9/2007

Art Chicago Runs April 26-30; Contemporary Works/Vintage Works Shows in Booth 7-4022

AIPAD Show Opens Later This Week; Runs From April 12-15 At NY 7th Regiment Armory; Education Program At Guggenheim Added

"27 Exceptional Photographs" At Phillips April 24 Evening Sale; Followed By Regular Photography Sale On April 25

Be-hold Auction to Be Held Apr. 19th; Includes Jesse James Gang Images and Platinum Self Portrait By Hagemeyer

Daguerreian Society Restructures For The Future, Making Cost-Cutting Decisions

Contemporary Works/Vintage Works to Represent Artist Arthur Tress

Artist Sol Lewitt Dies

An Expansion and a New Name For My Company

Photographers and Art & Photo Shows