My gateway camera was a Canon AS-6 Aqua Snappy. I found it in my dad’s nightstand alongside photo albums of his college days, gallon ziplock bags filled with undeveloped disposables, our broken family camcorder, and an old Pentax SLR. He had purchased the Aqua Snappy in the early 90’s for a Caribbean snorkel, but had never used it, let alone taken it out of the box. It sat, unopened with all its pristinely packaged accessories, until that fated day my 15-year-old self decided

Lot 3118 in our Spring Quarterly Auction: Jacques Callot (French, 1592-1635), etching on paper of a boar hunt As the resident print specialist here at Bunch Auctions, I hear a lot of rather disconcerting misconceptions regarding prints from both consignors and buyers. The term “print” has become a catch-all for any artwork that wasn’t created with brush- or pen strokes, and that leaves a lot of room for error, especially in the marketplace, and dangerously trivializes the myr

Hold on to your hats, kids, because we’re about to discuss something mind-blowing: dust jackets. You know, that decorative sheet of paper around hardcover books that you use to mark your place. Dust jackets have been around in some form since the early nineteenth century and became rote in the early twentieth, but they haven’t always looked like the shiny, colorful protective sleeve we’ve come to know and love. The earliest known “dust jacket” dates to 1830 and is housed at t