Camera Collecting and Photography Auctions

B&H Photography Podcast

Jill Waterman

Podcast, Photography, Arts, Visual Arts, Bh, Photo

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Is your Leica M7 worth more than what you paid for it? How about the value of that Brownie in your grandfather’s closet, or even your first digital camera from 1995? With Heritage Auctions preparing to host its first-ever auction of collectible cameras, we take time to talk camera and lens collecting with Nigel Russel, of Heritage, and Gabriel Biderman, of B&H Photo. Russel is a world-recognized camera expert and photo historian, and discusses the criteria that make a camera retain or increase in value, the possibility of finding a collectible camera at a garage sale, and the general ins and outs of a camera auction. We also chat about Ansel Adams’s 4 x 5 camera that is currently up for auction, as well as the “cult” of Leica and even about a camera from the 1860s that uses water between the lenses to create a panoramic view. A well-respected night photographer, Gabriel Biderman is also a camera collector whose first rule of collecting is to only acquire cameras with which he can actually take pictures. His collection includes cameras from each decade of the 20th Century, and he actively uses these film cameras, in addition to his growing list of digital cameras. Join us as we take on the subject of camera collecting from two distinct points of view and revel in the shared pleasure of classic photographica. Guests: Nigel Russel and Gabriel Biderman https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/p/podcast https://www.ha.com http://www.nationalparksatnight.com

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0:00.0	You're listening to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:04.0	For over 40 years, B&H has been the professional source for photography, video, audio, and more.
0:09.6	For your favorite gear, news, and reviews, visit us at bnh.com or download the B&H app to
0:15.4	your iPhone or Android device.
0:17.6	Now here's your host, Alan White.
0:19.8	Greetings and welcome to the B&H Photography Podcast.
0:23.5	Today's topic is Photographic A, specifically camera collecting.
0:27.4	To get the skinny on White's hot, what's not, and why they're hotter and not so hot,
0:31.6	John Harrison are being joined today by Nigel Russell.
0:34.8	Nigel Russell is a graduate of Vassar College and Rochester Institute of Technology where
0:39.0	he studied photographic science and engineering.
0:42.4	Since then, he has been involved with Sotheby's London, Sotheby's New York, Spire Collection
0:47.6	in New York, Swan Auctions, Christie's, and a whole bunch of organizations that are involved
0:54.4	in photographic, the sale of collectibles, prints, lenses, cameras, everything to do with
1:00.0	photography.
1:01.7	From 2005 to 2006, Nigel was the photography consultant for the National Council for Culture,
1:07.9	Art and Heritage in Doha, Qatar, and worked as photography curator for the Qatar Museums
1:13.6	Authority from 2006 through 2013.
1:17.4	He was also a major contributor to the history of photography as seen through the Spire Collection
1:23.0	published by Aperture in the fall of 2001 and co-author of Spirit Capture.
1:29.2	Photographs in the National Museum of the American Indian, he's also a member of the advisory
1:33.5	committee of the Technology Department of the International Museum Photography at George
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