That’s one rich potato: Snap of muddy spud fetches $1.5M

[spaminator]

That’s one rich potato: Snap of muddy spud fetches $1.5M
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First posted: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 06:51 PM EST | Updated: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 07:20 PM EST
A European businessman has reportedly paid $1.5 million for a photo of a muddy Irish potato.
Dublin-based portrait photographer Kevin Abosch, 46, said he sold the print -- a single potato on a black background -- after a customer took a real liking to it while visiting for dinner.
"We had two glasses of wine and he said, 'I really like that.' Two more glasses of wine and he said: 'I really want that,'" Abosch told the U.K. Sunday Times.
Two weeks later, they settled on a price and it was sold. He didn't release the identity of the buyer.
Abosch, who gets upwards of $500,000 for his commissioned portrait photography, says the potato photo is the most he's ever made from a photo he wasn't hired to take.
And the 2010 snapshot isn't even unique. There are two other prints in existence -- one already in private hands. The other was donated to a gallery in Novi Sad, Serbia.
A European businessman has reportedly paid $1.5 million for a photo of a muddy Irish potato.

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[Blackleaf]

Did the Irishman take a photograph of a potato so that he can rememember what they look when the next famine comes along?

Also, you'd out to be completely and utterly out of your mind if you are willing to pay $1.5 million for a photo of a potato.

 

[petros]

There won't be a next famine. That strain of blight susceptible potato no longer exists.

 

[Blackleaf]

There won't be a next famine.

There's one in Africa.