Presenting the Most Expensive Photograph in the History of the World: “Rhein II” by Andreas Gursky – Meh « San Francisco Citizen

Presenting the Most Expensive Photograph in the History of the World: “Rhein II” by Andreas Gursky – Meh

I don’t know, I think it could use a little flava…

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…but the person who just bought it for $4.3 million would disagree, to be sure.

Do you notice a theme here?

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3 Responses to “Presenting the Most Expensive Photograph in the History of the World: “Rhein II” by Andreas Gursky – Meh”

John Stavert says:

November 11, 2011 at 10:30 am

Who bought the Rhein II photograph for 4.3M dollars?
sfcitizen says:

November 11, 2011 at 11:26 am

Good question. I didn’t see this info in any of the links so I assume that the name wasn’t disclosed…
Nancy says:

November 12, 2011 at 4:14 pm

Could you possibly be suggesting that a photo is overpriced and over hyped? Oh no, say it isn’t so!
4.3 million.
Well, I guess somebody liked it. Can’t say much for their taste.

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