Daniel Wolf, 65, Dies; Helped Create a Market for Art Photography (Published 2021)

Daniel Wolf, 65, Dies; Helped Create a Market for Art Photography (Published 2021)

In 1984, he quietly amassed 25,000 photos for the J. Paul Getty Museum, jump-starting collectors’ interest in the medium. Daniel Wolf pulled off what may have been the greatest legal art caper of all time: Over the course of two years in the early 1980s, he quietly amassed some 25,000 classic and …

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    The Getty acquisition sounded the starting bell of a golden age of great public photography collecting,”

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