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BrianShaw
23-Mar-2021, 07:47
A historic auction... I wonder who the lucky winning bidder will be...

https://apple.news/Aks2lLR2bRkm8tgbh21uBgg
Tin Can
23-Mar-2021, 08:07
Not me!

I do wonder how they looked when just made...
cowanw
23-Mar-2021, 08:40
A deep chocolate brown in the shadows. Here is one I have from John Dillwyn Llewelyn, a Fox Talbot associate in Walws
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Jim Noel
23-Mar-2021, 13:17
my modern salt prints made using Fox Talbot's original process on 24lb, 100% linen paper, very similar to what he used, are a somewhat rich chocolate brown.
Jody_S
24-Mar-2021, 08:37
"In 2020, about a third of our bidders and buyers for photograph sales were either new to the market completely or new to Sotheby's," she said. "That's astonishing and definitely points to a healthy market."

That's good news!
BrianShaw
24-Mar-2021, 10:32
That was the most interesting part of the article... and it is good news.

I hope, though, that the successful buyer will be situated to put them on display for folks like us to see. Generally that means institutional buyers, who don’t fit that profile of being new.