Andreas Gursky’s photograph Rhein II sold at auction for a ground-breaking $4.3 million. The print is Plexiglas-mounted, signed & gigantic (it’s nearly 12 feet wide), but the price had many people scratching their heads. Thankfully, there has been no shortage of articles written since to explain things to uncultured folk who don’t understand the astronomical prices paid for fine art.
‘It is valuable because it is art, not just a photo. Rules are worthless. If he was just a photographer instead of an artist, he would have been crippled by the nonexistent “rule of thirds” myth, and put the horizon someplace else.’
