The conversations I have had with dealers in vintage photography over the years have at some point inevitably led me to ask the question, "So what do you collect yourself?".…
Read MoreHenri Jean-Louis Le Secq (August 18, 1818--December 26, 1882) was a French painter and photographer. Le Secq was born in 1818 in Paris and was a son of a…
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