Between you and me, I wouldn’t shell out a whopping $6.5 million for a photo. Then again, I’m also not rich enough to pay that amount of money for a single photo. Photographer Peter Lik’s photo, called “Phantom,” holds the record for the most expensive photo sold. The Phoblographer details on the very expensive purchase:
“The purchase also included Lik’s masterworks “Illusion” for $2.4 million and “Eternal Moods” for $1.1 million. With this $10 million sale, Lik now holds four of the top 20 spots for most expensive photographs ever sold. He already has a position in the ranking with a previous $1 million sale of famed image, “One.”
$10,000,000. So why so much money? Peter is well known for his landscape photography and his color work. To see landscape and black and white together is very rare. Combine that with the very ghost-like look due to dust and the little sliver and light, and you’ve got yourself a winner. Technically, this is a very tough image to accomplish because of the high amounts of contrast. According to Lik’s news post today, it was shot in the Southwest part of the United States.
Image via The Phoblographer
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http://www.salon.com/2012/04/26/joseph_mccarthy_reborn/
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150685937090986&l=b5d605b39b
The famed then 87-year-old Kazan's unforgivable crime was to have truthfully told the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities in 1952 that he and eight of his friends had been fellow members of the communist party, from which he had resigned in disgust. Some of these men later admitted that Kazan told the truth. Nevertheless, until his death in 2003 at the age of 94 Kazan remained a political leper among Hollywood's politically correct.
These are same people who in October 1997 streamed into the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences in Berverly Hills to see Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a film glorifying unrepentant Stalinists who wanted to turn the US into another Gulag. Needless to say, these are also same celluloid intellectuals who support cop-killers and murderous dictators – but only so long as they are socialists." -- "Hollywood leftists, their blacklist and their treason", Gerard Jackson
Amazing. The leftists who have wrested control of our colleges and universities are, next to Hollywood, the greatest blacklisters of all time. They have ideologically cleansed the faculties of these institutions of conservatives while ironically making a fetish of "diversity". How utterly hypocritical for any left-wing academic to complain about "McCarthyism" and "targeting".
Gee, I wonder what would give hime that idea.
Dem. Socialists of America claim 70 Democrat congressmen as members?:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35733956/DSA-Members-American-Socialist-Voter-Democratic-Socialists-of-America-10-1-09
Wake up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
Start there and then read the books:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Haunted-Wood-Espionage-Paperbacks/dp/0375755365/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335282353&sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Venona-Decoding-Soviet-Espionage-America/dp/0300084625/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335282353&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/In-Denial-Historians-Communism-Espionage/dp/159403088X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335282353&sr=1-3
McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy were right, the communists had infiltrated our cultural institutions and had gained access to the highest levels of our government.
How sad that the apologists for the "red fascists", as George Orwell called them, continue to push the ahistorical garbage contained in this post.
Here's a protip: McCarthy was a piece of garbage who was willing to make innocent people suffer to further his own political career.
Still, the Venona papers which were released in the early 90s, while not justifying all tactics used to track down Soviet spies, do prove that there were Communist spies deep inside the US government.
http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf