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This Is The World's Most Expensive Photograph

Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II” sold for $4.3 million at Christie’s making it the new world's most expensive photograph. This is it. posted

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  • orionh thinks This Is The World's Most Expensiv... is Fail  about 5 months ago
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  • Well hell. Looks like I need to start selling fucking photos.

    chaz atlas
    6 months ago
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  • THAT'S MY BACK YARD!!!

    rollinp
    6 months ago
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  • Just so the buyer gets his or her money's worth, I've upgraded the picture just a bit.

    joeb11
    6 months ago
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  • Nice. That's nice. Value is in the eye of the viewer. Something can cost as much as a buyer is willing to pay, but the value remains non-monetary.

    davef4
    6 months ago
  • dzzyrn   This Is The World's Most Expensiv... and thinks it’s Trashy, Fail & WTF  about 6 months ago

  • Nice Photograph, But I Don't Have 4 Million $$'s Today, So I Will Enjoy The Viewing!

    Camille Fletcher
    6 months ago
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  • ah Gursky we meet again

    Murphytheyeti
    6 months ago
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  • The photographer may be a visionary… but this kind of thing is the reason why the world is going down the drain! That a photo can go for that much money, well it's just sick!

    OsirisFox
    6 months ago

  • In all fairness: a big part of what defines Gursky's photographs is that they're printed at very large sizes, and are meticulously crafted with lots of very subtle detail. I'm not familiar with this particular piece, but I can guarantee you that there's a lot going on in this image that you won't see if you're viewing it as a little JPEG on your computer screen.

    Mike N.
    6 months ago

  • Excellent photo, just pricy.

    JEdoubleSSSS
    6 months ago

  • G.T.F.O.O.H.

    huntnpeckr
    6 months ago

  • See, the 1% DO create jobs! Er…job, that is, for one pretentious photographer.

    Chas R.
    6 months ago

  • 1st off everyone knows they payed for the name of the artist not the picture if I took that pic I would not get 4m much less 4$ and also could I print this pic and then sell it for 4m lol.

    ModernCowboy13
    6 months ago

  • Gursky's work is actually pretty great. He takes large-scale photographs of objects in a series (apartments, supermarkets, buildings, crowds of people) and frames them so they appear as rote patterns. His photographs work brilliantly as a series. They're disturbingly provocative, reducing the wonder of existence to a series of patterns.  They trouble is that, on their own and out of context, his photos are complete failures, because they just look like someone took a picture of something in the least imaginative way possible. Certainly no one should pay millions for just one of them.

    benr11
    6 months ago

  • This looks like one of the vacation shots that you cull out of your online album so the people who look at it don't get bored and quit.

    oOo
    6 months ago

  • It's definitely nice, but best photograph ever nice? No.

    Diana
    6 months ago

  • But… I… Well… I give up.

    Krissy Diggs
    6 months ago

  • Great picture.

    TroutMaskReplicant
    6 months ago

  • You guys realize that there's more to life than Star Wars and Harry Potter, right?

    Chris Johanesen
    6 months ago

  • Not to diminish the beauty of the picture or the skill of the photographer, I don't believe those are in question, but the fool who bought it 4.3 mil absolutely deserved to be separated from his/her money.

    angelaw6
    6 months ago

  • It's a little crooked for 4 million.

    ravdavis
    6 months ago

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