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Photo News Round-Up
• Getty Images stockholders vote to approve $2.4BB (or $34.00 per share) acquisition by Hellman & Friedman (originally announced in Feb 2008).
• SnapVillage, Corbis’ microstock platform is now joining other microstock sites to offer subscription pricing.
• Former Getty staff Andy Stewart and Eva Agustsdottir launch Complete Retouch, a London based retouching house specialising in the stock industry.
• The Boston Globe launches, The Big Picture, a blog featuring galleries of photographs culled from the wire services, NASA and elsewhere.
• The Covering Photography website looks at the history of photography and book cover design. The website provides a book cover image database, which is browsable by photographer, author, publisher, publication date, and designer.
• Photography Meets Illustration: Mo Willems, winner of six Emmy’s for his writing on Sesame Street, combines photography and illustrations in his book Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale.
• People floating in space: French photographer Denis Darzacq is back with a new collection called Hyper.
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