Tuesday, May 13

My Expensive Taste

In my email today I got the results of the latest Sotheby's photography auction. Here are some of my favorite images. Once again, the prices these photographs went for at auction astound me.

Norman Parkinson "Hat by Legroux Soeurs" 1952 ~ $5,750

Robert Mapplethorpe "Calla Lily" 1988 ~ $36,000

James Casebere "Spanish Bath" 2003 ~ $14,900

Albert Renger-Patzsch "Mountain Forest in Winter" 1926 ~ $22,100

Giovanni Castell "White Tulips" 2006 ~ $6,000