Photography Collection - News for Art Buyers

"We are able to present the extensive works of today most respected and renowned photographers to a rapidly growing group of fine art photography collectors in a contemporary format and make these accessible", is how Andrea Preiss describes the idea behind PhotographersLimitedEditions.com. The artworks of e.g. Andreas Bitesnich, Howard Schatz, Bruno Bisang and Timothy White are published exclusively for the company based in Vienna, Austria. Andrea Preiss, the founder of the site, is an enthusiastic collector and has worked for 20 years as a manager and creative director of an advertising agency.

artnet Online Auctions is another website to buy and sell photographs. Sellers in artnet Online Auctions are reviewed and approved; most, in fact, are professional galleries or dealers. If an item sold is other than described or found not to be authentic the sale is void and the buyers money is refunded. The site offers some information about how to value art.

Eyestorm was founded in 1999 and came under new management two years ago. The british site collaborated with photographers like Helmut Newton and there are alliances with art world organisations like London's Saatchi Gallery and Magnum Photos. Eyestorm offers some information about how to care for artworks.

PicassoMio is a good site for newbies on the art market and explains how to choose photographs for the collection and offers articles of journals and newspapers on how to start a collection. 90 % of the visitors are from Nort America and the European Union. There are partner galleries from around the world like Phaidon, New York.