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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That would have been the days of glass negatives. More than 30 seconds of work.
And no photomat either. More time.
And stored for 100 years. More time.
Digital photography is the era of point and print (and they are not archival, as this image is).
How about TWO traitors? Kerry and before that Gore? How do you like Gore the other day saying on foriegn soil no less "Arabs are being terrorized by the US"? Kerry said the same thing as well a while back, saying US troops were terrorizing Iraqi women and children! Ann Coulter hit the nail right on the head when she called Democrats the "Treason party", they never stop proving it!
You know, that looks more like Sam Alito back there than Abramhoff.
Very nice. I suppose it could be worth something, but something tells me there is more than meets the eye to this Long Island pond photo. Maybe it transforms into something else.
GTFOOH!
That one always brings a smile to my face.
Is that Abramoff in the little red circle? Did "Time" run this?
I'm really not keeping up.
I will sell him this one for only 375 grand.
ROFLMAO
There is probably a t-shirt out there somewhere.
It looks really nice, as has been said, impossible to judge on the screen, but it's a very nice shot. Might be worth something to some folks, esp. civil war buffs might like it. Don't know how you can market a photo like that, public domain, etc. etc. But it is very nice, to my mind anyway.
I don't know who it is. The MSM thinks its Abramoff. Might was well be Mickey Mouse for all the detail it shows.
Thursday, I am phone-ing in sick to work. You know, after I win my Powerball jackpot and all.
Al Gore may have committed treason, but it came after his campaign for President. His party won't give him a second chance.
I'll send you a buck if you promise not to post a picture of the burger king guy again.
Why is it worth $3 million? Because if the EPA sees that puddle, it will prevent a $100 million development project [/fake but accurate]
brilliant
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