This Is Most Expensive Photo Ever
Jonathan Jones opines: ‘Photography is not an art. It is a technology. We have no excuse to ignore this obvious fact in the age of digital cameras, when the most beguiling high-definition images and effects are available to millions. My iPad can take panoramic views that are gorgeous to look at. Does that make me an artist? No, it just makes my tablet one hell of a device. The news that landscape photographer Peter Lik has sold his picture “Phantom” for $6.5 million, setting a new record for the most expensive photograph of all time, will be widely taken as proof to the contrary. In our world where money talks, the absurd inflated price that has been paid by some fool for this “fine art photograph†will be hailed as proof that photography has arrived as art.’
