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Forget a thousand words. This picture's worth $2.9 million (photo was of a Long Island pond)
Associated Press ^
| February 14, 2006
Posted on 02/14/2006 8:28:33 PM PST by new cruelty
NEW YORK (AP) -- A photograph of a pond taken by Edward Steichen sold for more than $2.9 million, easily setting a world record for the highest-priced photograph ever auctioned, Sotheby's said.
"The Pond-Moonlight," taken on Long Island in 1904, sold on Tuesday for $2,928,000, including the buyer's premium, Sotheby's spokesman Matthew Weigman said. The buyer's identity was not immediately disclosed.
The photograph shows a pond in a wooded area with light coming through the trees and reflected in the water. Pre-sale estimates priced the photo, which is slightly bigger than 16 inches by 19 inches, at up to $1 million. The only other two prints are in museum collections.
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Stephen Perloff, the editor of The Photograph Collector, a newsletter about the photography art market, said before the Steichen auction that it would be a "moment of history."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: art; auction; edwardsteichen; longisland; newyork; ny; photo; photograph; photography; pond; record; steichen; thepondmoonlight; worldrecord
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To: macamadamia
101
posted on
02/14/2006 9:43:25 PM PST
by
TheLion
To: weegee
I thought Margaret Sanger founded the organization that became Planned Parenthood which goes back way before the 1950s. Speaking of Planned Parenthood
Dr. Mary Steichen Calderone, was a Medical director of the Planned Parenthood Federation in 1953 -1964
102
posted on
02/14/2006 9:44:42 PM PST
by
syriacus
(--------- Jimmy Carter is the world's only SELF-canonized saint ----------)
To: new cruelty
Apparently Steichen did a lot of World War II photos....here is one:
103
posted on
02/14/2006 9:45:02 PM PST
by
TheLion
To: new cruelty
Nice. But $2.9 million worth of nice?It was taken by Edward Steichen. That's worth a lot right there, to photography enthusiasts and collectors.
104
posted on
02/14/2006 9:45:41 PM PST
by
SuziQ
To: new cruelty
Man, as a photographer, I wish you didn't have to be dead to make that kind of cash.
To: weegee
I remember reading some about Steichen's life, a few years back, when reading Carl Sandburg's biography. Sandburg was his brother-in-law.
106
posted on
02/14/2006 9:47:39 PM PST
by
syriacus
(--------- Jimmy Carter is the world's only SELF-canonized saint ----------)
To: TheLion
Now that is a photo!
Yeah, whenever I see that photograph of Mantle, I always have two thoughts, "I want that photo" and "Man, I wish I took that picture!" Its a poetic image.
107
posted on
02/14/2006 9:51:58 PM PST
by
macamadamia
(Insert pretentious Latin phrase here: ____________________________)
To: syriacus
108
posted on
02/14/2006 9:53:58 PM PST
by
syriacus
(--------- Jimmy Carter is the world's only SELF-canonized saint ----------)
To: Bender2
Maybe you can get someone at DU to give you that much for it. The building appears to lean left.
109
posted on
02/14/2006 9:56:19 PM PST
by
rock58seg
(It's time for Islam to actually become a religion of peace or a religion of the past.)
To: macamadamia
I grew up with this guy as one of my heroes. I used to listen to the games on radio any way I could!
110
posted on
02/14/2006 9:56:53 PM PST
by
TheLion
To: new cruelty
This one should be worth $ 20 mil then:
CLICK!
To: new cruelty
No, no! You need to make the guy the same shades of sepia as the rest of the pic! Maybe insert Tourist Guy-- or even Evil Bert! That's be coool...
112
posted on
02/14/2006 9:58:59 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: LdSentinal
That one guy is thinking: "Alright. America remains safe AND I still get some..."
113
posted on
02/14/2006 10:01:07 PM PST
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: syriacus
Edward Steichen His life and works.
Edward Steichen is photography's greatest artist as this large retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art clearly shows....etc
114
posted on
02/14/2006 10:03:47 PM PST
by
syriacus
(--------- Jimmy Carter is the world's only SELF-canonized saint ----------)
To: freedumb2003
CN_Tower in Toronto
115
posted on
02/14/2006 10:04:11 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(No expiration date is on the Oath to protect America from all enemies, foreign and domestic.)
To: weegee
And does your boycott extend to [Fonda's] films?What boycott?
116
posted on
02/14/2006 10:08:59 PM PST
by
syriacus
(--------- Jimmy Carter is the world's only SELF-canonized saint ----------)
To: All
A better look at the Steichen:
117
posted on
02/14/2006 10:33:56 PM PST
by
BushMeister
("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
To: new cruelty; weegee
Have you been to the Cy Twombly exhibit in Houston? Basquiat is a master in comparison. Speaking of alleged "art" spotted in Houston, my favorite example of "you've gotta be kidding me" pseudo-art hanging in a museum was something I saw in the Menil Collection over a decade ago. It was just four small canvases side by side (each about a foot square), each canvas completely covered in a different solid pastel paint color (chosen apparently at random) with no variations of texture or color, and the title of the work was "The Four Seasons".
I want to know who paid how much to buy and display *that* unimaginative and talentless crap?
To: new cruelty
119
posted on
02/14/2006 11:36:41 PM PST
by
devolve
(<-- (-in a manner reminiscent of Senator Gasbag F. Kohnman-)
To: mass55th
You just gave me an idea for a 7-part epic miniseries for PBS!
... oh, wait.
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