The resulting photo was sold at auction for $ 4.3 million in 2011 to an anonymous collector. Unlike most archive photos, art photography does not have to serve a clear and immediate purpose. It is not used to promote a brand, product or service, Rising star I Met Jesus but simply to please the owner’s attention and sometimes as an investment . This does not exclude that some archive photos may also be works of art, even though they are generally not sold for quantities that sell famous works of art.
However, his black and white photo of an aerial view of the Tobolsk Kremlin in Siberia earned $ 1.75 million at auction, some experts say the high price was paid more for a good cause than for actual artistic earnings. It was sold at an auction that was part of the fourth annual Rozhdestvenskaya Azbuka charity fair, to Mikhail Zingarevich. Australia’s most famous photographer, Bill Henson, doesn’t sell anywhere near Lik’s astronomical prices. Since 2014, I have sold thousands of great art prints and gallery quality to collectors around the world. My first edition of 200 was sold out in 2016 and there are about ten other pieces on the way.
Private sales also included the image of Lik Eternal Moods, which sold for $ 1,100,000, bringing total sales to the $ 10,000,000 limit. Fine art photography is notoriously difficult to define, as there is no aesthetic, technical or methodological detail that distinguishes it from the images we all capture on our phones and cameras every day. Its beauty lies in the power of photography to tell a story, capture an emotion or convey an idea; Artistic photography touches the heart of the human experience. In short, you know the difference between a photo and a photo when you see it. Here are 11 of the most famous and expensive photos recently sold at auction.
I am a self-taught visual art landscape and nature photographer specializing in large format and limited edition photographic prints with a broad base of collectors and fans from all over the world. This black and white photo of the upper antelope gorge in Arizona shows a light and sand ash that falls into the underground slit gap. An iconic place with many photographers and one I have often photographed.
At the time, it was the most expensive photo, although since then other photos have been bought at much higher prices. It is not yet known how expensive the other versions will be, but it is very likely that they will be sold at much higher prices . In November 2014, Australian photographer Peter Lik wrote art history when it was announced that a private sale had seen his Phantom photo go for a record $ 6,500,000. Current Prime Minister and former President of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, confirms the last place in this list of the most expensive photos ever sold.