Sol Lang posted this on 12/19/2009

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I saw my friend Helmut Newton today. Browsing through a local bookstore, I saw a large volume of the book “Sumo”. Although this was not the original, gigantic, $25,000.00, signed version, it was still a larger than usual book of photographs. At a cost of $180.00, I was tempted to purchase it, but decided against doing so, thinking it would have been a frivolity. I would have liked to own it for its collection value, but I would have looked at it once and then it would have forever become a f...