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Most Expensive Photograph
February 15, 2006 - 5:06PM
The Pond-Moonlight by Edward Steichen has become the most expensive photograph
ever, as it was just recentely sold for more than $2,928,000 during a Sotheby’s
sale which began in New York on February 14, 2006. The expensive photograph
was taken on Long Island in 1904. There are three known copies of the most expensive
photograph in , and the picture is valued for its rarity because it is an early
example of color autochrome photography. The other two copies of the photograph
are held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Museum of Modern
Art.

$US2,928,000
Pond-Moonlight by Edward Steichen
The 10 most expensive photographs in the world in US dollar figures.
1. Edward
Steichen Pond-Moonlight (1904), $US2,928,000+, 2006
2. Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), $1,248,000, 2005
3. Gustave Le Gray The Great Wave, Sete, (1857), $838,000, 1999
4. Andreas Gursky Untitled 5 1997, $559,724, Feb. 6, 2002
5. Gustave Le Gray Tree (1855), $513,150, 1999
6. Diane Arbus Identical Twins (Cathleen and Colleen), Roselle, N.J. (1967),
$478,400, Apr. 27, 2004
7. Charles Sheeler Ford Works (1927), $447,350, 1999
8. Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O’Keefe: Hands with Thimble, $398,500, May
31, 1998
9. Gustave Le Gray Marine 1855, $368,420, 2000
10. August Sander Handlanger, porteur de briques (Brick carrier) 1927, $328,940,
1999
The market for photography as an art form has come a long way in the last several
decades. Pictures that were once sold for less than $100, or even casually thrown
away, are now hot properties on the auction market… As always, the results
are taken from Artnet’s signature Fine Art Auctions Database src
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