World’s most expensive photograph titled Rhein II was sold for $4.3 million. German photographer Andreas Gursky, who is known for his large-format architecture and landscape photographs, took Rhein II in 1999 and 12 years after the photo was captured on lens by the photographer that it auctioned at Christie’s in New York in 2011. The pictures was digitally altered as he wanted to construct a desolate landscape and in turn removed distracting elements like a factory building, walkers and cyclers. Describing his vision for the photo, Gursky said, “It says a lot using the most minimal means…for me it is an allegorical picture about the meaning of life and how things are.”
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