The Pond Moonlight- World's Most expensive photograph
Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:28 pm"The Pond-Moonlight by Edward Steichen, taken in Mamaroneck, Westchester County in 1904, broke the world record price for a photograph when it was sold for more than $2.9m (£1.67m) at a two-day Sotheby's sale which began in New York last night. The previous record for a photograph at auction, $1,248,000, was set in November by Richard Prince's "Untitled (Cowboy)".
Steichen's 42cm by 40cm photograph, from the collection of the wealthy American industrialist Howard Gilman, is a dreamy, moonlit landscape with reflections of trees in a pond. As an image it is rather beautiful, bearing the impressionistic quality of early photography; an experiment exploring the limits of the photographic plate."
Read more here:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/15/usa.arts
Steichen's 42cm by 40cm photograph, from the collection of the wealthy American industrialist Howard Gilman, is a dreamy, moonlit landscape with reflections of trees in a pond. As an image it is rather beautiful, bearing the impressionistic quality of early photography; an experiment exploring the limits of the photographic plate."
Read more here:-
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/15/usa.arts