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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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Johann Ludwig Belitski: 19th-century Master of Lighting and Still Life
By Alex Novak
Johann Ludwig Belitski was a photographer born in Liegnitz in Silesia (now Legnica, Poland) about 1830. He died in Nordhausen, Germany, in 1902.
Belitski trained as a gilder…
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The Insider's Guide to Buying 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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