Andreas Gursky’s $4.3 Million Print Sets New Record
© Andreas Gursky/courtesy Christie’s
Gursky’s “Rhein II” is a 143 x 73-inch signed chromogenic print in an edition of six.
Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II” sold for $4,338,500 at an auction of contemporary art at Christie’s auction house in New York on November 8, making it the most expensive photo sold at auction. This is the second time a Gursky print has held this distinction. His 2001 photo “99 Cent II Diptychon” sold at a Sotheby’s auction for $3,346,456 in 2007, and was only displaced in May 2011, when a 1981 Cindy Sherman self-portrait sold for $3,890,500 at Christie’s. The buyer of “Rhein II” is unknown. Read more
Selling Fine Art Photography | PhotoShelter
Photographers and fine art professionals share tips for succeeding in fine art photography.
To help photographers establish and grow their fine art photography sales, we’ve assembled 12 interviews with photographers, gallery owners, online curators and consultants, all with inspiring opinions and insights about what’s working and not working in their unique approaches to succeeding in selling fine art photography. Read more
Wall Street Journal – on Portrait Photo Trends
By KATHERINE ROSMAN
Elizabeth McGuire hates her children’s school photos. “School mug shots,” she calls them.
Parents readily snap and share tons of photos, causing some to ask why would they want a school portrait of their child with a forced grin and hair brushed badly in front of a blue-speckled background. Katie Rosman has details on Lunch Break.
In their annual school pictures, her kids usually look ill at ease, with too-toothy smiles and hair parted to the wrong side against a grainy blue backdrop not unlike that Read more
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