Top 5 Most Expensive Photographs in the world

Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
“Athens, the Temple of Jupiter Olympian from the east»  (1842)

French photographer took the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter at Athens, they were sold at Christie’s auction in London for $ 922,488 in 2003 godu. Sdelanny in 1842, the daguerreotype is one of the oldest images of the temple.

Buyer: Qatar, Sheikh Saud Al-Thani

Alfred Stieglitz
Georgia O’Keeffe (Hands) (1919)

Picture of his wife.
Photo sold for $ 1,470,000 in February 2006 in New York.

Buyer: American art dealer Jeffrey Fraenke

Edward Steichen
“Lake. Moonlight » (1904)

In February 2006 a copy of stayhenovskoy avtohromnoy photo: Lake in the Moonlight “(1904) was sold at Sotheby’s for $ 2,928,000, which at that time was an absolute record.

The painting captures the moonlight between the trees and its reflection in the pond, and it looks like in color, though color photography was invented only in 1970, three years after the creation of this picture. Stayhen used several layers of light-sensitive rubber to create the sensation of color.
Copies of the photos of all three. Two of them – in museums.

Dmitry Medvedev
Snapshot Tobolsk Kremlin  (2009)

The picture was taken personally by the President of the Russian Federation. Maybe it was the cause of the high value photography.

Sold for $ 1,725,000 in January 2010 at a charity auction. It represents aerial photography.

Buyer: Member of board of directors of Ilim Mikhail Zingarevich

Gustave Le Gray
“A huge wave. Seth »/ The Great Wave, Sete (1857)

One negative – for the sky, the other – to the sea. All in one shot.
Renowned French Photographer 19 centuries in his time encountered difficulties exposure while simultaneously shooting the sea and the sky due to different brightness levels. To solve this problem, he opened two negatives on one sheet of paper, and then consistently showed them getting one
picture.

This picture was sold in 1999 for $ 838,704
Buyer: Qatar, Sheikh Saud Al-Than