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Sotheby’s Signs “Definitive Agreement” to Be Acquired by BidFairUSA; But Wait, There May Still Be a Twist
Last month Sotheby’s signed a "definitive" merger agreement to be acquired by BidFair USA, an entity wholly owned by the French-Israeli “media and telecom entrepreneur, as well as art collector”,…
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Barry Thumma: Photographing the Presidents and Other High Profile Subjects
By Alex Novak
Barry L. Thumma was born in 1947. He graduated in 1965 from Penn Manor High School and attended Millersville University.
Thumma was an Associated Press photographer, who covered…
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Contemporary Photography: Truth & the Burden of Reality
There has been a tremendous amount of discussion in the popular press lately about photography's relationship with reality. The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer with more than a decade…
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