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."
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However, your analogy is WAY flawed. See, most films tell a story - which could be debated for it's "artistic value".
So if a painting doesn't tell a "story" it's not art?
LOL. I had a similar experience when I went to see Solaris (don't ask me why I wasted money and time on going to see this movie, I have no good reason). I got more of a rush from watching the glimmer of the red light over the exit door.
I walk out on movies now. Even if I am only 15 minutes from the end. I really DON'T have to know how some wastes of time end.
I've made the mistake of seeing two Lars von Trier movies (both of which I walked out on). Saw Ang Lee's The Hulk and Crouching Tiger, never again.
I CAN watch a movie for the wrong reasons though.
Another thing that happens when I get bored watching a movie is I'll start looking at the book titles (often spines) on bookshelves in the background.
Only $14.95 plus $6.95 s/h while quantities last! Signed and numbered only $10 more! Hurry! This fire-loot-pillage-rape-rob-blowup blowout sale won't last long (or so we've been threatened). Sure to be a collectors item. Order now. - OB1
You'll have to post a few of them so we can judge the quality of your work before the bidding could start.
Most pictures tell a story, too. As in, a picture is worth a thousand words or in the photo shown in this thread, $2.9 million. You and I may not know the story or like the story, but it's there somewhere and someone knows about it and is willing to debate its artistic value. I think art, like beauty, is in the eye of the beer-holder. So if some schmo wants to pay $2.9 million to enrich his/her life, then that only adds to the legend of this photo. Does that make it art? Beats the crap outta me, but there is a story to it. : )
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I do much of the same. I'll look at the camera angle, dissect the script and the cadence in the dialog, ponder the sound effects and sound track. And ultimately, like you, if I can't take no-mo, I'll walk out. I've only done that on a few films- those that come to mind are Prince: Under the Cherry Moon, Bats, and The Contender (the one about the politician, not the one about the boxer).
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I'll sell it to ya- cheap!
Boy, the sales are getting harder to resist these days.
Do you happen to know which carrier that is? I met Jim Green yesterday. He flew Hellcats off of the Wasp and the original Coral Reef...the pocket carrier(forgot what their official name is), not the big carrier Coral Reef.
Nah, I'll just loot it.
Out of curiosity, what IS your definition of art?
I'll play. "Art" is determined only by the buyer. For me, photography is not art. Motion pictures are not art. Some paintings are, some sculpture is.
Like the poster up thread who saw the paint can and brush and thought it was a display (and these days something like that could be) the best example of 'modern' art I ever saw happened by accident. A pepsi can had fallen into the waterfall between the east and west buildings of the national gallery in DC and ended up standing up against the wall on one of the falls. It looked cool. In fact it looked better than any of the 'modern' works in the gallery.
Now some people may pay millions for photos or some paintings. I look at the item they are buying and think they are insane. But it's their money.
No, a painting is "created" from nothing. A photo is merely a mechanical, physical process using light and film to create an image that already exists.
That is one of the funniest things I've ever read on FR.
You have a twisted mind. But you know, you're right ... it does.
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