Record prices for photographs

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: October 25, 1998| Author: Meir Ronnen | Copyright information


Jerusalem Post

10-25-1998

Can you believe that someone would pay $224,500 for a photograph? An anonymous buyer did at Sotheby's sale of photographs in New York October 7.

The signed print was the most durable image of the Depression, made in the '30s by Dorothea Lange (1895-1965). Entitled Human Erosion in California, it shows a weary, anxious mother and her starving children. It set an auction record for Lange when it doubled its estimate.
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