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Understanding the photographic object: process and date, printing history, edition and estate stamps, and the particular vulnerabilities of photographic materials.
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Nineteenth-century photography is collected as much for process as for image. This guide sets out the principal early processes, how to recognise them, and what condition means for each.
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Modern and contemporary photography raises questions of edition, printing history and attribution that do not arise elsewhere. This guide explains what to establish before buying a twentieth-century print.
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