Les 15 photos les plus chères de l’histoire. Le 11 mai dernier, la photo la plus chère du monde a été vendue par Sotheby’s… C’est l’occasion de (re)découvrir les 15 clichés qui ont enflammé le marché de l’art!
15. Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol (1987) Gabriel Araujo. Photographes. Garry Winogrand / Biography & Images - Atget Photography.com / Books. Granted that simplicity is a virtue; beyond this it is too complex a matter to generalize about with impunity.
One might add with reasonable confidence that simple does not mean vacuous, obvious, plain, habitual, formulated, banal, or empty. The ability to produce pictures richly complex in their description would seem to be intrinsic to photography; indeed, this characteristic might almost be considered a simple fact of the medium. Nevertheless, much of the best energy of photographers during the past seventy years has been dedicated to the task of thinning out the rank growth of information that the camera impartially records if left to its own devices, in favor of pictures which have been --- for lack of a better word --- simpler.
In photography the formal issue might be stated as this: How much of the camera's miraculous descriptive power is the photographer capable of handling? Or how much complexity can he make simple?