The most expensive price ever reached for a photograph was just surpassed, making Andreas Gursky' s piece "Rhein II" the most expensive photograph ever sold. At 4.3 million, the piece surpassed estimates by almost 1 million dollars...
I don't claim to really know anything about photography so I don't want to do too much of a critique. I do think the piece is very appealing. The horizontal lines are very engaging and it reminds me a bit of a real-life version of some more simple pieces that I do (with much more subdued colors of course), But I do wonder, with a piece so subtle, what drives the price so high? Is it the artists name or the piece itself? I'm not saying that i don't think it's good enough for that price, I just wonder what exactly makes this piece so much better than the millions of other beautiful landscapes I've seen. Not that it's the same as a point and shoot of a mountain, I don't mean that...IT's far better. The colors work very well together, the bands create an almost abstract and depth-less image that is almost "rothko-esque" in it's ethereal quality. The uniformity of the thing is stunning. I like it, i'd just be interested to hear what the artist and buyer think of the piece specifically that make it successful to the tune of 4.3 mil...
http://news.yahoo.com/record-photo-sold-auction-set-nyc-182745446.html
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