New most expensive photo is Photoshopped

[Fourtoes]

Gurskys is one of six....Does the seller own the other 5?

[Fourtoes]

Just posted the top ten photos on my blog. Hope the "plug" isn't innappropriate. Sort of enlightening what our culture has produced as its top photos, at least by the measure of auction sales.

--Darin

I like the Steichen Pond out of that lot of dross.

[David R Munson]

Photoshop being involved matters how?

[Darin Boville]

Gurskys is one of six....Does the seller own the other 5?

The Online Photographer post IDs some of the other owners--big museums, etc.

--Darin

[Jay DeFehr]

New most expensive photo is Photoshopped

Get used to it.

[Marc B.]

4.3 million? I guess the folks that pay a few hundred $$ for pieces of toast with images of Elvis, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, etc...Aren't as kooky as the person that just bought this picture. Nuttier than the Beanie Babies craze.<grin>

[Mike Anderson]

Photoshop being involved matters how?

I think it indicates an acceptance of sorts.

...Mike

[Frank Petronio]

I'd be upset if I got it home and found lumps of Spotone in the sky.

I bet it is face-mounted Plexi, so the print probably cost $50K just to make. What do you think the actual production costs were for something that big?

[Brian C. Miller]

The Dada movement has won. Hands down, it has won.

The money has talked, and everything else has walked. Style? Subject? Composition? A lack of pure BS? Nope! Even the longevity of the physical medium is in doubt. But this is what defines what is valuable.

[Pawlowski6132]

Get used to it.

Never! It's retarted. So, you have to own a computer to be a photographer today???

Gimme a break. Call it something else.