The Rhine river by German artist Andreas Gursky. Titled Rhein II, was sold for $4.3m (£2.7m).
Andreas Gursky's 99 Cent II Diptychon (2001) sold for $3,346,456 in 2007.
Edward Steichen's The Pond-Moonlight (1904) sold for $2,928,000 in 2006.
Unknown photographer, Billy the Kid (1879–80) sold for $2,300,000, June 2011.
Dmitry Medvedev, Kremlin of Tobolsk (2009), sold for $1,750,000 in January 2010.
Edward Weston's Nautilus (1927) sold for for $1,082,500 in 2010.
Alfred Stieglitz's Georgia O'Keeffe (Hands) (1919) sold for $1,470,000 in 2006.
Richard Avedon's photo Dovima with Elephants (1955) sold for $1,151,976 in 2010.
Eugène Atget's Joueur d'Orgue (1898-1899) sold for $6,86,500 in 2010.
Ansel Adams, Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1948) sold for $609,600 in 2006.
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