by Gerry Badger (Mitchell Beazley Miller’s, New York City), $39.95

Collecting Photography is a reference guide for both novice and experienced collectors. Author Gerry Badger discusses, among other topics, the different types of photographs available, how to build and structure a collection, collecting for investment, buying and selling photographs, recognizing fakes and forgeries, and displaying and caring for photographs. Top gallery owners, collectors and dealers are quoted throughout the book, providing the reader with their views on collecting. In addition, Badger provides a list with market notes on the 250 most collectible photographers and a directory of the most reputable sources. For those who are clueless about photography lingo, the book includes a glossary of terms as well. Collecting Photography highlights superbly reproduced duotone and color photographs from a wide range of artists, including Ansel Adams, Nobuyoshi Araki, Walker Evans, Annie Liebowitz and Alfred Steiglitz, among others.

Curator and historian Gerry Badger currently teaches photography at Brighton University and resides in London. He has curated various major exhibitions, including "The Photographer as Printmaker (1980)" for the Arts Council of Great Britain and "Through the Looking Glass: Postwar British Photography (1989)" for the Barbican Arts Centre, London.