G. Ray Hawkins, gallerist who championed photography as fine art, dies at 80

When G. Ray Hawkins opened the first public gallery in Los Angeles devoted to photography in 1975, the financial rewards were unremarkable. Even names that defined fine art photography drew humble prices. Ansel Adams’ famous nighttime landscape “Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico” typically sold for about $600 then, and that was at the higher end of … Read more