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[email protected] We who handle books are people of the copy.We inhabit a world of reproductions, of pictures of Kenny Cummings pictures, which, as we stride into the age of digital reproduction, we cannot help but imagine as ever Director of Operations
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[email protected] kaleidoscopically into multiple, deviating, even conflicting pictures. Our age of reproduction is a Todd Bradway Key Accounts Sales Director paradox worthy of a Greek myth: a cautionary tale of increasingly precise copies that, in their infinite
[email protected] divergence from each other, belie the dream of fidelity. As German artist Gerhard Richter said in a Elisa Leshowitz 2001 interview with Robert Storr,“Today there are more facts that are changing.”* Director of Publisher Services
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