The most valuable photo in the world: the first one took 40 million, why is the second one particularly familiar to 900 million people?

"In the middle of this wall hangs a big photo frame with a picture of a kind woman in her forties." -Ba Jin's Death

In today's society, photos have become an indispensable part of people's social life. I believe that when you choose electronic products such as mobile phones, a very important reference index is the photo shooting effect. Of course, with the development of image processing software such as PS, today's photos are not necessarily "credible", but to some extent, the influence of image expression content is far greater than the expressive ability of words.

Photos have been around for less than 200 years. 1826, the world's first photo was born in the hands of a French scientist named Joseph Nicephore Niepsey. He photographed the courtyard and house outside the window with a vacuum camera, so he named it "Scenery outside Legolas".

In less than 200 years, enough photos have changed from black and white to color, from film to electronic camera, from the need for a professional camera to mobile phone, and everyone can become a photographer, and their development has turned upside down. The photo has also changed from a picture only used to record some current scenes to a more collectible and ornamental work of art.

Like those famous paintings with sky-high prices, there are also some sky-high photography works in the photos, from which we can experience different things.

For example, the auction price of this billy the kid is as high as 2.3 million US dollars, which is 1.5 1.4 million yuan when converted into RMB without considering inflation. This old photo is so famous because "billy the kid" in the photo is a notorious criminal in the United States, with 2 1 lives in his hand, which once shocked the whole country, and this photo is his only one.

Ninety-nine Cents II, LA and Rhine all belong to photographer andreas gursky, and these works are among the top ten most expensive photography works in the world, with prices of 3.3 million US dollars, 2.9 million US dollars and 4.3 million US dollars respectively, which means that each photo has brought him tens of millions of RMB.

However, these three photos are not the most expensive photos in the world. The first most expensive photo in the world is Phantom, which was taken in Antelope Canyon, USA. The transaction price was $6.5 million, which was converted into a sky-high price of 40 million RMB.

The reason why this photo can be shot at such a high price is because it breaks the "realism" of the photo and shows an illusory meaning, but it really comes from the ingenuity of nature. The interweaving of truth and illusion doubles the value of this photo.

Since there is a first place, there will naturally be a second place. The specific transaction price of the second place has not been disclosed, but according to insiders and related rankings, this photo is second only to Phantom, and its name is Bliss. The most amazing thing is that this is a photo that 900 million people are particularly familiar with.

What is this photo? WindowsXP wallpaper, you know that there are more than 940 million netizens in China now, and as many people surf the Internet, so many people have seen this photo. Bliss was shot in the south of Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA. The shooting time was 1996.

The photos are enough to show that this is a beautiful place with green grass, blue sky and white clouds; Unfortunately, when the photographer set foot on this land again after 10 years, he found that the once picturesque scenery had disappeared. Now, if he wants to enjoy such beautiful scenery, he can only turn on the computer and look at the desktop.