Simulated Battlefield Photo Sells for $3.6 Million, Sets Canadian Record
A fake war photograph by Canadian artist Jeff Wall was sold yesterday at …
A fake war photograph by Canadian artist Jeff Wall was sold yesterday at …
PDN has published an interview with art collector Jonathan Sobel, who’s …
36 of American photographer William Eggleston's digital pigment prints were auctioned off at Christie's on Monday, fetching a whopping $5.9 million -- far more than the $2.7M they were expected to sell for. Eggleston is credited with helping making color photography a legitimate artistic medium for galleries, which had previously favored B&W prints. A print of Eggleston's "Memphis (Tricycle)" (shown above) was the top seller after being snatched up for $578,500.
If you’ve always wanted your own military-grade portable darkroom, today’s your lucky day! There’s a used US Army one …
The Panavision PSR 35mm movie camera that was used for most of the principal photography in the original 1977 …
Despite what you might think, this isn't some random snapshot we found online -- it's actually the world's most expensive photograph. Titled "Rhein II", it's a 1999 photograph by Andreas Gursky showing the Rhine river. Last night it sold for a whopping $4,338,500 at Christie's.
Behind the Gare St. Lazare is one of French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson‘s best …
Here’s a strange (and extremely rare) piece of camera gear: the Leica Telephoto …
Why sell an old photo as something historical when you can market it as something mythical? A few days …
Photo-enthusiast etxenike recently won a spool of Verichrome Pan 116 film in an auction, and discovered that it had already been exposed. He had the film developed, and found that five of the eight photographs survived -- not bad for film that has been sitting around since the 50s or 60s!
Photographer Mike Mitchell was 18-years-old back in 1964 when he captured The Beatles on their first US tour. After sitting in a box for 45 years, 50 of the photographs were individually sold at a Christie's auction on Wednesday for a whopping $361,938.
There’s a new entry in the list of most expensive photographs, and this …
A Leica 0-series camera made in 1923 was sold this past weekend at WestLicht Photographica Auctions for a staggering €1.32 million (~$1.89 million). Only about 25 0-series cameras were manufactured to test the market before Leica began commercially producing the Leica A. It's the most expensive camera ever sold, but is still only half the price of the most expensive photo that was auctioned earlier this month.
Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #96” from 1981 has become the world’s most valuable photograph after selling for a staggering $3.89 …
While Nikon Corporation was established in 1917 (as Nippon Kōgaku Tōkyō K.K.), the company was a lens manufacturing company …
Here’s another site you can bookmark if you’re constantly on the hunt for cheap, used camera gear to play …
Forget those fake plastic (but wildly popular) mugs that look like Canon lenses, there's a one of a kind custom lens cup made from a real $1,300 Canon 300mm f/4 L lens being auctioned on eBay. Kai over at DigitalRev had an accident while shooting a video about the lens and, instead of tossing it out, they decided to convert it into a cup and auction it off for charity (all proceeds will go to help victims of the recent Australian flooding).
Goodwill has an online auction site called shopgoodwill, and categories in the …
Forget the uber-rare Leica MP2 that's going on auction at the end of this year. If you want a unique camera but don't want to trade your house for it, you can save yourself a couple hundred grand by going for this brand new made-for-NASA Hasselblad MKWE up for sale on eBay for a cool $33,751.
We're not sure why the price is so specific or what exactly makes this a NASA camera (it doesn't seem to be branded so), but it's a definitely an eye-catching Hassy.
This Leica MP2 camera and matching Wetzlar electric motor are going up for auction at …
A signed print of Edward Weston’s Nautilus Shell purchased for $10 in 1927 has been auctioned off for a whopping …
In 1927, a young photographer bought a print at San Francisco’s East West Galleries for $10 — roughly $125 …
We reported last month that the New York auction house, Sotheby’s will be …
It’s no secret that Polaroid has seen its share of financial troubles over the last few years. This year, Polaroid …
In 1836 Louis Jacques Daguerre, a French artist and chemist, invented the first practical camera, the …