A collection of Polaroid photo auctioned by Polaroid themselves ( to bear debtors ) , made $ 7 molarity in the process , with more photograph expected to top $ 12 m. Some photos , like this Andy Warhol self - portrait , convey $ 254,500 . One photo , three times that .
The priciest photo auctioneer off wasAnsel Adams ’ Clearing Winter Storm , shoot at Yosemite . One lucky bidder whop $ 722,500 down on the table for that . It ’s a beautiful photo , shot in 1938 , but the brain boggles that a flimsy photograph can cost the same amount as a bombastic house . It break all estimations for the photograph , which was think to go for between $ 300,000 – $ 500,000 .
Polaroid , whose financial troubles have been cataloged right here on Gizmodo the past few age , is betray 1,260 of the 16,000 figure of speech that make up the Polaroid Collection , to give off debts . Sotheby ’s is slice off a 10 per penny commissioning , but those $ 7 molarity wage on the first 279 pic ( in 100 lots ) should hopefully go some way to repairing Polaroid ’s fortune . [ SothebysviaBJPvia1001NoisyCameras ]
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