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The intersection of philately and photography. From commemorative issues honoring great photographers to stamps featuring iconic images, this theme looks at how the medium has been celebrated on the smallest of official canvases.

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Collect the Issues — View photography through the lens of the postage stamp.

Contents

Examples
1Marketing: Stamps
Types
2Wet stamps
3Blind and embossed stamps
Purpose
4Stamps: Studio
5Stamps: Distribution
6Stamps: Estate
Photographers and their stamps
7Brassaï: Wet stamps
8Elliott Erwitt: Wet stamps
9Martin Munkácsi: Wet stamps
Magnum wet stamps
10Robert Capa: Magnum wet stamps
11Henri Cartier-Bresson: Magnum wet stamps
Case studies
12Views of Rome taken by Adriano de Bonis signed by Achille Quinet

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