CNN has an article about the potato image that recently sold to an anonymous buyer for a shade over 1 million dollars. Apart from the potato image, there are also some portraits and a couple of still life images.
Not really my 'thing', but interesting. Perhaps I'll start taking photos of peanut butter sandwiches or my pencil collection? Ya never know, given that a picture of a lonesome potato sold for over a million.
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My favorite part of the story is how the potato is a "proxy for the ontological study of the human experience."
Has to be a put-on, right?
Not really my 'thing', but interesting. Perhaps I'll start taking photos of peanut butter sandwiches or my pencil collection? Ya never know, given that a picture of a lonesome potato sold for over a million.
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Below is a link outlining the 20 most expensive photos ever sold. With a footnote about Peter's sale at the bottom of the list. The "Spud" has made the list at number 15.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_photographs