Daniel Wolf, 25, has parlayed his love for photographs into a million-dollar business. His Daniel Wolf Gallery in Manhattan sells prints dating from the dawn of photography and represents contemporaries like Elliott Porter for a clientele that includes major American art museums. Born in China and raised in Colorado, Daniel began taking pictures as a child with a Kodak Instamatic. He read Minor White's book Mirrors, Messages and Manifestations, which so inspired him that he studied with the author-photographer for two summers. During a high school year in France Wolf had a show of his own and later, as an art student at Bennington College, he went to Europe annually, haunting junk shops and buying 19th-century prints for as little as $1. "I didn't know whether I would be a collector or a dealer," recalls Wolf, "but I did know I wanted those photographs." Before long he was peddling his finds in front of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Then, with help from his businessman father, the young bachelor opened the gallery in 1977. "It used to be difficult to sell a photograph for $200," he says. "Now they sell for $2,000 every day."
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