Most expensive photographs ever sold

#1 Andreas Gursky - Rhein II (1999)
$4,338,500, November 8, 2011

#2 Cindy Sherman - Untitled #96 (1981)
$3,890,500, May 2011

#3 Richard Prince - "Untitled (Cowboy)" (c.2001–2002)
$3,401,000, November 14, 2007

#4 Andreas Gursky - 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)
$3,346,456, February 2007 (second print sold for $2.48 million and a third print sold for $2.25 million)

#5 Edward Steichen - The Pond-Moonlight (1904)
$2,928,000, February 2006

#6 Unknown photographer - Billy the Kid (1879–80), tintype portrait
$2,300,000, June 2011

#7 Dmitry Medvedev - Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009)
$1,750,000, January 2010

#8 Edward Weston - Nude (1925)
$1,609,000, April 2008

#9 Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919)
$1,470,000, February 2006

#10 Alfred Stieglitz - Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919)
$1,360,000, February 2006

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