La Photo : valeur refuge...

Le Crédit municipal de Paris, vénérable institution surnommée "ma tante", accepte désormais les photographies d'art.
Après les bijoux, argenterie, peintures et autres objets précieux, et depuis mars dernier les grands vins, ce sont les photographies d'art qui pourront être déposées en gage à l'ancien Mont de Piété, pour parer à un besoin urgent de trésorerie.
Un commissaire priseur spécialisé expertisera les clichés en fonction de leur valeur sur le marché des enchères publiques. Le prêt correspond à 50% de la valeur estimée de la photographie et un contrat d'un an est alors établi pour un an (reconductible). Si le propriétaire n'a pu rembourser le prêt, après relances, l'objet est mis aux enchères en salle des ventes.

Paris Photo 2008

Paris Photo met le Japon à l’honneur. Premier pays d’Asie à avoir adopté la photographie dès les années 1850, le Japon s’est imposé, par sa production originale et diverse, comme une scène photographique unique et majeure qui suscite aujourd’hui un intérêt international croissant.

Des clichés rares de l’ère Meiji aux expériences avant-gardistes des années 1930, du reportage des années 1950 à la création contemporaine des années 1990-2000, Paris Photo offrira un panorama exceptionnel de la production historique et contemporaine japonaise en présentant les œuvres de plus de 130 auteurs réunis pour la première fois en Europe.

ARGENTIC in Paris

We are very pleased to announce the opening of our first office in Paris : 21 rue Drouot 75009 Paris. You can now have your buyings delivered to this adress or ask to see prints or books. For that just email us.

See you soon
ARGENTIC

Happy Birthday

When we opened this website, early 2006, we wanted to offer the broadest choice in Photographic Prints and Books at all prices ( 2.000 items currently on sale).

Two years later you were more than 450.000 to visit us, to write and order. Thank you very much for your curiosity and your confidence.

We will keep on adding new images and books and are working on great novelties for spring.

Kind regards
ARGENTIC

MM & JFK

Just 5 letters everybody knows.
There is not Top List of the most photographed people , but this couple could be in the first place.
- A black back armchair, 75% of the image and a small metal plate inscribed: THE PRESIDENT JAN 20 1961.
- A black and white portrait, barred of a broad orange cross.
Two photographic images, at the same time Art and History.
Which will be the next initials in 50 years?

Photo hunting...

For all images hunters : a new selection of silver weapons for your cameras :
Films, chemistry and silver papers available in the cameras and lenses section.
The digital vampire hunting is now open...

And always new photographs and books every week.

Thank you and good shooting.

SUMMER 2007

A lot of new images on our site this summer, very well-known, known or unknown…

Lastly, a splendid issue of Phot'Art International (June 2007) on Argentina and with an article on… the silver prints going at gold price…

Good readings, great discoveries and happy holidays.

2007 Transphotographiques in Lille

Transphotographiques return for their sixth edition in the north of France, from May 10 to June 17, with a very rich program. More than seventy exposures and events, to a great extent new ones, will take seat like each year in the most beautiful places of the town of Lille, but also of Roubaix, Lambersart and Courtrai in Belgium.

We will welcome you in the "tri postal" building, Avenue Willy Brandt (Open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 11am - 2pm and 3pm - 7pm. Sunday 2pm - 7pm - closed Monday and Tuesday).

See you in Lille.

Fashion and Photography

Following the Parisian Fashion shows, we wanted to offer you a selection of books and prints on Fasion Photography. From Richard Avedon to Bruce Weber, all the Fashion photographs masters are there.

Another great photographer who left us too early : Jean-François Jonvelle.

A French master who was the first to pay attention to Paris in all details : Eugène Atget.

And beautiful large size silver prints of studio Bernand.

Enjoy your visit.

ARGENTIC

PHOTO and JAZZ

Like Black and White, these 2 words are inseparable.

This month, we are proud to welcome a great photographer who has haunted the clubs and the festivals of Jazz for more than 20 years: Martial Peres. Jazz fans of Sunset or New Morning in Paris know him very well, always at the first rank and the last one to leave. We present a selection of his photographs at very reasonable prices.

We also gathered under the Jazz topic some books with for instance the Foto-Jazz of ED Van der Elsken.

Swingly yours.

PHOTO ANTICA

We would be very happy to welcome all our Parisian friends next Sunday January 28, 2007 in the floral garden of Vincennes.

We will be there from 9am to 17pm. You can find all information on the www.photoantica.com site.

We will present a selection of photographs books, a large range of Olympus reflex and lenses, material for enlargers, as well as 19th prints of Carlo Naya or Carlo Ponti on Venice.

See you on sunday
ARGENTIC

THANK YOU

One year old... ARGENTIC will blow in a few days its first candle.

Thank you first of all to visitors who travelled trough our pages, to find The Photograph or The Book, but let us hope it was first for pleasure of discovering known or unknown images.

Thank you for your messages, your encouragements, your criticisms also, they enable us to progress and to offer you a different site, we want it to be open to all the photographs, at any price.

All the ARGENTIC team wishes you a very happy new year, and see you soon with great new images.

PARIS FOLIE...

In this month of the Photography festival in Paris, dead leaves and records are falling together. The success of the prestigious Brassaï sale is the most perfect example.
Beyond the millions generated by these 3 sales and which are in all your newspapers, it is more interesting to analyze the changes and the key factors of this success.

- An extraordinary catalog with masterpieces and all the work of a life.
- A really splendid exposure allowing everyone to admire with dignity all these works and not a display on the run…
- A setting in scene of the 3 sales: act 1: Art, act 2: Day, act 3: Night.

On the D-day, a large public and to a great extent nonfamiliar with these kind of sales. Thus, many photographs were bought by new amateurs not necessarily wealthy.

Silver photography had just lived rich and beautiful hours, thank you Mr Brassaï.

Good PARIS PHOTO to everyone.

Arles 2006

Between two discussions on Photography at our stand, we nevertheless had time to see some exposures:

Gathered in the S.N.C.F. warehouses : Guy Le Querrec, Gilles Carron and Don McCullin, images shocks and portraits intimists, crash of wars or jazz clubs.

The American photographers French collection, from Adams to Weston, while passing by Evans, Harbutt, Klein, Levitt or Weegee…. and the dream to take them all at home…

David Goldblatt who, for more than 50 years, has taken pictures of the history of his country: South Africa.

Dominique Issermann, the only one to exceed the world of the luxury and fashion, and keeping only the black and white beauty of it.

Malik Nemji, a " photographer fallen from the sky " according to the expression of Raymond Depardon.

Thank you to all those which visited us and see you next year.

MOVIE AND PHOTOGRAPHY

We are pleased to announce the opening of a new topic: that of the Movies.

You will find there a selection of photographs from 1906 till now.

Marlon Brando, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, Josephine Baker, Laurel and Hardy, Cary Grant, Paul Newman, Tony Curtis, Brigitte Bardot, Raimu and some other stars are waiting for you.

Great discoveries.

Best regards

ARGENTIC

WELCOME

Photographer, collector or simple amateur of beautiful images, this site was created for you.

We collect hundreds of references coming from original private collections. Vintage prints, rare books and materials are for sale directly, and in total confidence.

We wanted to proposes accessible books and photographs, you will find real beautiful prints or books for just a few tens of euros and also great masterpieces.

We wish you beautiful discoveries and are listening to you for any request.

Kind regards

the Argentic team