Steichen Photo sold for 2.9 mil

[Brian Ellis]

"My point is that given the current rate of both hardware and software obsolesence, the number of times storage medium standards have changed over the last fifteen years, and the issue of archival permanence, is there a digital medium capable of lasting 100 or more years"

Your original tongue-in-cheek question was whether there would be a digital print that would sell for $2.9 million 100 years from now. What does obsolesence in hardware and software or changes in storage media have to do with whether a digital print made today will last for 100 years or the price it will bring in 100 years? Films, papers, and other photogrraphic materials disappear all the time but that doesn't mean the prints made from them disappear.

[darr]

The NY Times calls it a platinum print:

... "The Pond — Moonlight" (1904), a platinum print by Edward Steichen, sold for more than $2.9 million, a record for a photograph at auction. It was bought anonymously by a private collector.

For a Dear Museum: Love, Hallmark, Published: February 18, 2006

[Lucy Bowditch]

The Bowditch essay on Steichen -within a Symbolist context- is in History of Photography, vol. 17, no. 3, 1993 (not 1999).