Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Last Wednesday at Christie’s (New York), the above photograph – Cindy Sherman’s “Untitled #96” (1981) – sold for $3.89 million to New York dealer, Philippe Segalot.

“Untitled #153” (1985), also by Cindy Sherman, went for $2.7m 6 months ago. To the same dealer.

Cindy Sherman Print Sells For $3.9 Million At Auction, The Highest Ever For A Photograph (PopPhoto)

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Hefting and peering through a high-end camera lens, you get a sense of the craft, the precision engineering, and the thoughtful design that went into it. But look at it in cross-section, as with this photo a neatly bisected Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm lens and the hellish, gorgeous complexity is revealed in a visceral way: “These were actually made by Leica students as a graduation project and boxed as a ‘cutaway model’ of the lens.”

Cross Sections Views Of Leica Lenses (Peta Pixel)

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