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Million dollar photo

PostPosted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 11:21 pm
by gooseberry
An untitled cowboy photograph by Richard Prince set a record last night for the most expensive photograph sold at auction, with a price of $1,248,000.


http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/a ... 1001476300

Not bad... getting US$1.2 million for a photo. Could fund a lot of lens lust - hehe, a lot of other lusts too.[/quote]

PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:49 pm
by NJ
I wouldnt have paid that much for that photo...

PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 5:56 pm
by thaddeus
Hang on, it's a photo of a photo!

From the article: "the piece is one in a series of photos Prince took of portions of Marlboro cigarette ads"

PostPosted: Sat Nov 12, 2005 7:21 pm
by ozimax
No.