I was amazed to see this, but this photograph fetched $3.34 million at auction. It’s called ‘99 Cent‘, by Andreas Gursky.

Really, are photographs worth -that- kind of money? I can see paintings being worth that much, so much time and effort and creativity goes into them, but photographs to my way of thinking, while art in their own right, don’t rate the same value.

Interestingly though, the previous highest, Steichen‘s ‘The Pond — Moonlight‘, is rather beautiful and artistic (I don’t think 99 Cent is). But still, probably not worth $2.9 million. And that’s just for a print btw, not for the negative. There were three prints made of it…

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