List of most expensive photographs

This is a list of the highest prices paid for photographs (in US dollars unless otherwise stated).

1. Andreas Gursky, Rhein II (1999), $4,338,500, November 8, 2011, Christie's New York.^[1]
2. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96 (1981), $3,890,500, May 2011, Christie's New York.^[2]
3. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001), $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby's London auction.^[3] A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby's in May 2006.^[3]
4. Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904), $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[4]
5. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #153 (1985), $2,700,000, November 2010, Phillips de Pury & Co. New York.^[2]
6. Unknown photographer, Billy the Kid (1879–80), tintype portrait, $2,300,000, June 2011, Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction.^[5]
7. Dmitry Medvedev, Tobolsk Kremlin (2009), $1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.^[6][7][8]
8. Edward Weston, Nude (1925), $1,609,000, April 2008, Sotheby's New York auction.^[9]
9. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919), $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[4]
10. Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919), $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[4]
11. Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989),^[10] $1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction.^[11]
12. Richard Avedon, Dovima with elephants (1955), $1,151,976, November 2010, Christie'sParis auction.^[12]
13. Edward Weston, Nautilus (1927), $1,082,500, April 2010, Sotheby's New York auction.^[13]
14. Peter Lik, One (2010), $1,000,000, December 2010, Anonymous Collector ^{[14][15][16][17]}
15. Eugène Atget, Joueur d'Orgue, (1898–1899), $686,500, April 2010, Christie's New York auction.^[18]
16. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987), $643,200, October 17, 2006, Christie's New York auction.^[19]
17. Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948), ^[20] $609,600, 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.^[21]

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