Here is a list of the 18 most expensive photographs ever sold, this collection features works created from the mid 1800s to 2014.
Good art is not what it looks like, but what it does to us. Roy Adzak (1927-1987)
ANDY WARHOL, (1987)
Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold, Warhol
Sold for: $643,200 USD
Artist: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) Sale Date: October 18, 2006
JOUEUR D'ORGUE (1898–1899)
Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold
Sold for: $686,500 USD Artist: Joueur D'Orgue, C. 1898-1899 Sale Date: April 15, 2010
113. ATHÈNES. 1842. T. DE J. OLYMPIEN. PRIS DE L'EST. (1846)
Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold, Whole Plate Daguerreotype
Sold for: $922,000 USD Artist: Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) Sale Date: May 20, 2003
Untangling (1994)
Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold, Untangling Cameraplex
Sold for: $780,000 USD Artist: Jeff Wall (b. 1946) Sale Date: November 2006
Nautilus (1927)
Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold, Westin Shell 1927 Cameraplex
Sold for: $1,082,500 USD Artist: Edward Weston (1886 – 1958) Sale Date: April 2010
Dovima with Elephants (1955)
Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold, Dovima with elephants, Evening dress by Dior, Cirque d'Hiver, Paris, August 1955
Sold for: $1,151,976 USD Artist: Richard Avedon (1923-2004) Sale Date: November 20, 2010
Untitled [Cowboy] (1989)
Untitled Cowboy Cameraplex
Sold for: $1,248,000 USD Artist: Richard Prince ( b. 1949 ) Sale Date: November 8, 2005
Ektacolor print ,50 x 70 in. Executed in 1989. This work is number one from an edition of two plus one artist's proof.
Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919)
Alfred Stieglitz Okeeffe Nude Cameraplex
Sold for: $1,360,000 USD Artist: Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) Sale Date: February 2006
Nude (1925)
Nude Westin Cameraplex
Sold for: $1,609,000 USD Artist: Edward Weston (1886 – 1958) Sale Date: April 2008
Tobolsk Kremlin (2009)
Tobolsk Kremlin Cameraplex
Sold for: $1,750,000 USD Artist: Dmitry Medvedev ( b. 1965) Sale Date: January 2010
Billy the Kid (1879–80)
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Sold for: $2,300,000 USD Artist: Unknown Sale Date: June 2011
Untitled #153 (1985)
Untitled 153 Sherman
Sold for: $2,700,000 USD Artist: Cindy Sherman Sale Date: November 2010
Untitled #96 (1981)
Cindy Sherman Untitled Cameraplex
Sold for: $2,882,500 USD Artist: Cindy Sherman Sale Date: May 2011
The Pond-Moonlight (1904)
The Pond Moonlight Cameraplex
Sold for: $2,928,000 USD Artist: Edward Steichen Sale Date: February 2006
99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)
Gursky 99 CENT II, DIPTYCH Cameraplex
Sold for: $3,346,456 USD Artist: Andreas Gursky Sale Date: February 2007
Dead Troops Talk 1986 (1992)
Dead Troops Talk Cameraplex
Sold for: $3,666,500 USD Artist: Jeff Wall Sale Date: May 2012
Rhein II (1999)
Andreas Gursky Rhein II Cameraplex
Sold for: $4,338,500 USD Artist: Andreas Gursky Sale Date: May 2011
Phantom (2014)
Phantom Peter Lik Cameraplex