Word: sipa
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...best magazine photographers go everywhere, shoot everything. For the most part they are represented by one of the six major agencies- Sygma, Magnum, Gamma-Liaison, Sipa, Black Star and Contact- which, for a fee (usually 40% to 50% of sales), play mother and salesman, lining up buyers throughout the world. Most of the agencies have their headquarters in Paris, and Paris is also home base for many photojournalists. "Geographically, it's the ideal place to be," says Robert Pledge, president of Contact. "It's halfway between Washington Moscow, Hamburg and Madrid...