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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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Here is the photo-
Nice. But $2.9 million worth of nice?
To: new cruelty
Wish it still looked that way.
To: new cruelty
I love Steichen's work, and am glad the internet provides it for free.
Some people want to buy the actual works, and as long as someone else will buy it from them eventually, it's just another commodity.
Thank God I'm not so obsessed and can just enjoy looking at the pictures.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:31:01 PM PST
by
Darkwolf377
(An agnostic for religious freedom, not Islamofascistic multiculti PC secularism)
To: new cruelty
I like Steichen. I can think of better things to do with 2.9 million dollars (like paying my bills). But I'd rather have this than a Warhol or most of the other junk on the modren art market.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:31:54 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: new cruelty
Seems a bit steep. I've taken stuff that looked similar when I got the exposure setting wrong. Who knew?
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:32:00 PM PST
by
Prince Caspian
(Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
To: new cruelty
If that run of the mill photo commands $ 3 million, what about my far bettter photos of bikini babes shot at Daytona Beach? You should see the lights and shadows in those photos.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:33:54 PM PST
by
Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
(Bush's #1 priority Africa. #2 priority appease Fox and Mexico . . . USA priority #64.)
To: new cruelty
That's a photo of a pond? It looks like Hillary Clinton's dental X-ray.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:34:36 PM PST
by
Alberta's Child
(Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
To: new cruelty
The buyer's identity was not immediately disclosed. How 'bout "dumbass" for starters?!
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:34:46 PM PST
by
blake6900
(YOUR AD HERE)
To: new cruelty
How much is this worth?
To: Alberta's Child
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:35:26 PM PST
by
jdm
(You can learn a lot about paranoids just by following them around.)
To: Alberta's Child
To: new cruelty
"But $2.9 million worth of nice?"
Yeah, I ain't that nice, or rich, or crazy. But....maybe it looks better in real life.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:36:21 PM PST
by
jocon307
(The Silent Majority - silent no longer)
To: new cruelty
Hey, I'll take $2,899,999.99 for mine...
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:36:22 PM PST
by
Bender2
(Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often!)
To: LdSentinal
Give it another 100 years or so... maybe someone will give you a couple of coins for it. : )
To: new cruelty
And to think! I just right clicked on the photo and got it for free :-)
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:37:22 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
To: Dont_Tread_On_Me_888
what about my far bettter photos of bikini babes shot at Daytona Beach? You should see the lights and shadows in those photos. Mountain photos do sell pretty good. Especially ones with impressive peaks and valleys. :-)
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:37:42 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: new cruelty
Wher on Lawn Guyland? It was probably drained for a bunch of Cape Cods and Colonials in the late '40s/1950s.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:37:59 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
To: new cruelty
Where on Lawn Guyland? It was probably drained for a bunch of Cape Cods and Colonials in the late '40s/1950s.
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:38:06 PM PST
by
Clemenza
(I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...)
To: Alberta's Child
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:38:07 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
To: new cruelty
I've taken pics like it, I swear, before I knew of this master, and with a cheap, cheap 2 1/5'' camera. But who'll pay $2.9 mill for something by a cat named Revolting cat! ? Brand name sells. Also, why does it look in colour?
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posted on
02/14/2006 8:38:14 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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