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Posted By: davidcycleback

I'm working on a booklet called, "Making Sound Judgements About the Authenticity of Paper Photographs: A Primer for Collectors" and am about halfway through. As the title suggests, the booklet is a guide or aid to offer the collector the basics of making sound judgements about all paper photos from all years, whether it's an 1880s Annie Oakley cabinet card or a curious and supposedly original but you have no clue about these things Polaroid of Robert DeNiro on the set of Taxi Driver**.

As the guide is intended to address what the reader doesn't know, wants to know and should know, anyone is welcome to pose to me questions they have or topics they wish to be addressed. Duly note that the guide is general in nature, and won't have a chapter on how to date an image by the style of bat or a life history of Joseph Hall. But if there are specific or general questions about stamps, how to identify later generation photos, etc, feel free to contact me (address linked above).


(** The Robert DeNiro Polaroid would be original. Due to their on the spot, self developing nature, almost all Polaroids are original, vintage and one-of-one. As they can be developed on location, Polaroids are sometimes used as lighting tests. It would be conistant for a Polaroid to have come a movie set or magazine photo shoot.)