Photos Worth Over A Million Dollars Was A Fake
The most expensive photographs in the world, which is in fact a forgery. Interesting facts about pictures of Richard Prince , one of which in 2005 was paid over a million dollars.
November 8, 2005 for the first time a photo was paid over a million dollars: a picture of Richard Prince (Richard Prince) in 1989 went to the Christie's auction for U.S. $ 1,248,000! However, not everyone agrees with such a high evaluation of creativity Prince, which, strictly speaking, is not even a photographer ...
It is a picture that broke the 2005 world record price pictures.
However, the "dark horse" Richard Prince, who shot a series, including the famous "Cowboy", turns out, is not a photographer ...
In fact, it is among the five richest and most famous contemporary New York artists.
And his "shot in a million," it turns out, does not picture ...
This so-called "re-photograph". Simply put, the Prince just remakes have already been printed in magazines pictures.
His heroes were cowboys with advertising illustrations Marlboro.
Thus, Prins managed to create a copy (photo) copies of (advertising) legends (cowboys).
The author speaks openly about his photographic talent: "I had a very limited skill with a camera. More precisely, not at all. I was just playing with the camera. "
Well, the real author of the most famous and expensive cowboy in the history of photography was, apparently, much more modest American photographer Sam Abell
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