1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
Irving Penn's Ballet Society while still in college. My wife Judy and I started collecting in earnest when we were in grad school at Stanford in the early 1980s; photo galleries...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
I probably started seriously in collecting in 1996 when I was successful at my first auction at Christies. I have been interested in photography as long as I can remember, participating in t...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
In my book The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the Unconscious I talk about my first acquisition as an Imogen Cunningham I bought at auction 40 years ago. The truth of the matter lies a l...

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Held from 29th March to 1st April 2012, Art Paris Art Fair is the springtime event for modern and contemporary art in France that brings together 120 galleries from 16 countries under the majestic glass roof of the Grand Palais. Under a new leadership, the fair has been renamed "Art paris Art Fair...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
My parents would bring me to MOMA when I was a kid and I would always head straight to the photography collection. I would get lost in the images by Arbus, Eggleston, Penn and Avedon...

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1. How and when did you begin collecting? What was the first photograph you bought?
Casually, compulsively, and mostly at flea markets, where I bought cartes de visite portraits, real-photo postcards, and stereo views, starting in the late 1960s. The first photographs I sp...

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"There is a belief in many cultures that the camera is capable of stealing the human soul or spirit. Suzanne Paul's camera may not steal the soul, but it certainly captures it and the spirit within." – Clint Willour, Director of the Galveston Arts Center

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The Yancey Richardson Gallery invites this year’s viewers to be enthralled by flowers, vibrant and faded, blooming and decayed, always in their vase except for those that decided to escape. This contemporary, conceptual series by the photographer Sharon Core was inspired the trad...

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As if often the case with the Kasher Gallery, the human is the center of attention. Accra Shepp’s visual journal, containing black-and-white portraits of the indignant protesters of Occupy Wall Street, is being sold for a modest price. Vivian Maier also photographed the human, but in...

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Vintage black-and-white photographs have pride of place at the Scott Nichols Gallery of San Francisco: Ansel Adams’ famous birch trees, a beautiful portrait of Truman Capote by Irving Penn, a glistening nude by Ruth Bernhard, a kiss by Mona Kuhn and a moonlit beach by Wynn Bullock. ...

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