Sentence examples for amassed a personal collection from inspiring English sources

Long before Martin Parr started collecting picture postcards in the early 1970s, the American photographer Walker Evans had amassed a personal collection of over 9,000 cards, most of them showing ordinary American subjects such as street scenes and notable architectural buildings from towns and cities across the States, dating from about 1900 to 1930.

He amassed a personal collection that ran from thirteenth-century carriage clocks to modern quartz pieces.

During his career he amassed a personal collection of more than 26,000 LPs, 80,000 singles and many thousands of other CDs and demo tapes at his home in Suffolk.

Jan Hoet amassed a personal collection during his years working as a curator, with over 500 works in it, most modest in scale, and certainly not spectacular.

Although he has long been interested in furniture and has amassed a personal collection that includes Prouvés and Perriands, this is his first real foray into design.

Though fashion has framed Mr. Bowles's perspective, and driven him to amass a personal collection of 20th-century couture that fills storage rooms in London, Paris and New York, where he has homes, it is his ability to focus on a subject with both scholarly precision and childlike curiosity that sets him apart from other fashion editors.

After forming his own Geneva-based oil-trading outfit, a business that required him to travel extensively in Africa and Latin America, Mr. Forgach developed a passion for rare birds, amassing a personal collection of more than 200.

It seems inevitable that the music market will evolve into something much more like the market for movies, where most people pay for access to a library of titles rather than amassing a personal collection.

David amassed a personal fortune reported at $200m.

He had amassed a personal fortune of at least $15 billion.

Within two decades of leaving Stanford, he had amassed a personal net worth of about $4 million.