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List of most expensive photographs

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Steichen's The Pond-Moonlight

Billy the Kid

A black-and-white print of the Tobolsk Kremlin photo by Dmitry Medvedev sold at a charity auction in January 2010 for 51 million rubles.

This is a list of the highest prices paid for photographs (in US dollars unless otherwise stated).

Rank	Artist	Work	Price	Date	Seller/Auction
1	Andreas Gursky	Rhein II (1999)	$4,338,500	November 8, 2011	Christie's New York[1]
2	Cindy Sherman	Untitled #96 (1981)	$3,890,500	May 2011	Christie's New York[2][a]
3	Jeff Wall	Dead Troops Talk (A vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986)(1992)	$3,666,500	May 8, 2012	Christie's New York[4]
4	Andreas Gursky	99 Cent II Diptychon (2001)	$3,346,456	February 2007	Sotheby's London auction[5][b]
5	Edward Steichen	The Pond-Moonlight (1904)	$2,928,000	February 2006	Sotheby's New York auction[6]
6	Cindy Sherman	Untitled #153 (1985)	$2,700,000	November 2010	Phillips de Pury & Co. New York[2]
7	unknown	Billy the Kid (1879–80) tintype portrait	$2,300,000	June 2011	Brian Lebel's Old West Show & Auction[7]
8	Dmitry Medvedev	Tobolsk Kremlin (2009)	$1,750,000	January 2010	Christmas Yarmarka, Saint Petersburg[8][9][10]
9	Edward Weston	Nude (1925)	$1,609,000	April 2008	Sotheby's New York auction[11]
10	Alfred Stieglitz	Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands)(1919)	$1,470,000	February 2006	Sotheby's New York auction[6]
11	Alfred Stieglitz	Georgia O'Keeffe Nude(1919)	$1,360,000	February 2006	Sotheby's New York auction[6]
12	Richard Prince	Untitled (Cowboy)(1989)[12]	$1,248,000	November 2005	Christie's New York auction[13]
13	Richard Avedon	Dovima with elephants(1955)	$1,151,976	November 2010	Christie's Paris auction[14]
14	Edward Weston	Nautilus (1927)	$1,082,500	April 2010	Sotheby's New York auction[15]
15	Jeff Wall	Untangling (1994)	$780,000 (A$1,000,000)	November 2006	The National Gallery of Victoria [16]
16	Eugène Atget	Joueur d'Orgue (1898–1899)	$686,500	April 2010	Christie's New York auction[17]
17	Robert Mapplethorpe	Andy Warhol (1987)	$643,200	October 17, 2006	Christie's New York auction[18]
18	Ansel Adams	Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948)[19]	$609,600	October 2006	Sotheby's New York auction[20]

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