10 Highest Prices Paid for Photographs

Richard Prince, Untitled (Cowboy) (1989)

$1,248,000, November 2005, Christie's New York auction.

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe Nude (1919)

 $1,360,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919)

 $1,470,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

Edward Weston, Nude (1925)

$1,609,000, April 2008, Sotheby's New York auction.

Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009)

 $1,750,000, January 2010, Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg.

Unknown photographer, Billy the Kid (1879–80)

 tintype portrait, $2,300,000, June 2011, Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction.

Edward Steichen, The Pond-Moonlight (1904)

 $2,928,000, February 2006, Sotheby's New York auction.

Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)

 $3,346,456, February 2007, Sotheby's London auction. A second print of 99 Cent II Diptychon sold for $2.48 million in November 2006 at a New York gallery, and a third print sold for $2.25 million at Sotheby's in May 2006. 

Richard Prince, "Untitled (Cowboy)" (c.2001-2002)

 $3,401,000, Sotheby's New York, November 14, 2007

1. Cindy Sherman, Untitled #96 (1981)

 $3,890,500, May 2011, Christie's New York.