When art speaks to you, it speaks to you, and if your pockets are deep enough, price tags apparently mean nothing. According to PetaPixel, a private collector recently dropped $6.5 million on a print of Australian landscape photographer Peter Lik's Phantom, making it the most expensive photograph in the world.
The photograph shows a spot inside Arizona's Antelope Canyon. The "Phantom" is the ghost-like figure that appears to be trapped inside the singular beam of light that stretches to the canyon floor. According to Lik's website, the same collector purchased his Illusion photograph for $2.4 million and a third image titled Eternal Moods for $1.1 million. "With this incredible $10 million sale, Lik now holds four of the top 20 spots for most expensive photographs ever sold," reads the blog.
"It is noteworthy that the sales of these photographic works denote another milestone in the development of fine art photography, as well as a new benchmark for the value of Peter Lik works," said Lik's attorney Mark G. Tratos in a press release.
[via PetaPixel]
