Peter Lik, Australian fine art photographer of landscapes, recently sold one of his images entitled “Ghost” for $6.5 million, the highest price ever paid for a single image. To see the photo of the very popular Antelope Canyon, Arizona check out
PetaPixel.
The Black and White version has much more impact than the previous
Red version.
To accompany this sale, Lik's images "Illusion" and "Eternal Moods" were also acquired for $2.4 million and $1.1 million, respectively. Lik now holds four spots out of the top twenty most expensive photographs ever sold.
The record was previously held by Andreas Gursky’s “Rhein II”, which
sold for $4.3 million back in 2011. In speaking of his artistic vision Gursky says, "I decided to digitalize the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me." In talking about the artist Peter Galassi of MoMA says, "Like the painter, Gursky constructs his composition, removing all small arbitrary details interrupting his clean horizon."
If you’re looking for a cheaper picture of the Antelope Canyon Getty Image has 1,125; Alamy 5,565 and Shutterstock 4,099.