The most valuable

This is the list of the most valuable photographs of the world:

1. Edward Steichen Pond-Moonlight (1904), U$S 2,928,000, 2006, auctioned.
   
2. Richard Prince Untitled (Cowboy) (1989), U$S 1,248,000, 2005, auctioned.
   
3. Joseph-Philibert Girault De Prangey Athènes (1842), U$S 922,488, 2003, auctioned.
   
4. Gustave Le Gray The Great Wave, Sete, (1857), U$S 838,000, 1999.
5. Andreas Gursky Untitled 5 (1997), U$S 559,724, 2002.
6. Gustave Le Gray Tree (1855), U$S 513,150, 1999.
7. Diane Arbus Identical Twins (Cathleen and Colleen), Roselle, N.J. (1967), U$S 478,400, 2004.
8. Charles Sheeler Ford Works (1927), U$S 447,350, 1999.
9. Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O’Keefe: Hands with Thimble, U$S 398,500, 1998.
10. Gustave Le Gray Marine (1855), U$S 368,420, 2000.
11. August Sander Handlanger, porteur de briques (1927), U$S 328,940, 1999.

The photopraphic art market has changed a lot this last decades, a proof of this is the values that some specific photographs, most of them from the begining of the XX'st century, obtained in the auction sales.
"The Pond-Moonlight" of Edward Steichen became the most expensive photograph in the word, for it's been recently sold for more than U$S 2,900,000 during a auction sale at Sotheby’s wich started February 14, in New York, this year. This valuable photography was taken in Long Island in 1904. There are three existing copies of this photograph, its value is the originality as it is an early example of a color autochrom picture. The other two copies of this photograph you can find them in this two NY city museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Modern Museum of Art

Pond-Moonlight of Edward Steichen

Untitled (Cowboy) of Richard Price

Athènes of Joseph-Philibert Girault De Prangey