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682: 33: 334: 117:, and decided to auction it. In February 2006, this print of the photograph sold for US$ 2.9 million, at the time, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction. The photograph was bought by gallerist 773: 768: 139: 753: 429:
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are still in existence and, as a result of the hand-layering of the gums, each is unique. One version was given by Steichen to the
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on behalf of a private buyer. This auction is presented in the part 6 of the BBC documentary
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a duplicate when it bought the
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in 1933. This had been reproduced in Stieglitz's photography journal
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is an early photograph created by manually applying
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Index

The Pond-Moonlight

pictorialist
photograph
Edward Steichen
Mamaroneck, New York
Charles Caffin
light-sensitive gums
Museum of Modern Art
Alfred Stieglitz
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Camera Work
Gilman Paper Company collection
Peter MacGill
List of most expensive photographs
List of photographs considered the most important


"Edward J. Steichen | The Pond - Moonrise"
Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography
ISBN
9780500543467
"Edward Steichen. Moonrise—Mamaroneck, New York. 1904"
ISBN
978-0-87070-846-6
ISBN
0-670-67051-0
"Plate IV. Moonlight: The Pond"
"The Met Is to Auction Some of Its Photographs"
"Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection / Lot 6"

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