
Collecting Vintage Photography Books: A Starter’s Field Guide
Few early photo books survive light and handling, and Robert Frank’s The Americans went from poor sales to landmark status after its 1958 debut.

Few early photo books survive light and handling, and Robert Frank’s The Americans went from poor sales to landmark status after its 1958 debut.

Film noir's classic period ran from the 1940s into the 1950s, built on low-key black-and-white lighting, a faster Kodak stock released in 1935, and cities that photograph like traps.

The best first film camera is usually the cheap, boring, dependable one — here is how to pick it and where the money should go instead.

Replicas, franken-cameras and mislabeled classics are everywhere at markets and online. Here is how to read the tell-tale signs before money changes hands.

A one-hour-a-week filter system for exhibitions, auctions and artist news — built for people who shoot film, not people who trade it.

Match the body to how you actually shoot, set a budget that leaves room for film, and buy the simplest camera that will do the job.