After news of a photo of a potato selling for over $1,000,000 came out, the internet has been up in arms expressing astonishment over the purchase.
This is a photo of a potato. It sold for $1 million: https://t.co/o1ta2Lj4bU pic.twitter.com/hf7NrMw4wl
— CNN (@CNN) January 27, 2016
While there are plenty of stunning photographs right at our fingertips ranging in price from completely free to perhaps a couple thousand dollars, some people chose to pay incredible sums for pictures because the shutter was pressed by a famed photographer or for some other reason.
In any case, here are the most extreme examples:
10. “Billy The Kid” (1879-80) by Unknown sold for $2,300,000
(Public domain)
9. “Chicago Board of Trade” (1997) by Andreas Gursky sold for $2,355,597
Photo: Chicago Board of Trade I // 1997 Andreas Gursky http://t.co/wAa9bLWu
— ATLAS (@artsATLAS) May 14, 2012
