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The collector is an artist in his own way, by the way he puts things together.
You can read a person's soul from their collection.
Ayers Tarantino
1-Introduction
My art collection started by collecting my own art.  The process was simple and unconscious.  I created art, no one would buy it so I kept it.  Being unable to throw away my own art it became, unwillingly, part of my collection.
My first real art acquisition was a 11x14 photograph by Ansel Adams printed by Alan Ross, part of the Yosemite collection.  I purchased it because it was offered at an attractive price and because it was by Ansel Adams, a photographer who I revered at the time.  This was a one-off because for many years afterward I did not add to my collection.  In fact, I did not think of this purchase, or of my own artwork, as being a collection.  These were photographs, one by a famous photographer and the others by myself.
The concept of art collection came to me later, after I had acqu...

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