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At Christie's in London on 20 May [2003], the oldest extant image of the remains of the Athenian Temple of Olympian Zeus, or "Olympieion", on the Acropolis, 1842 - among the most "modern" compositions by the seasoned 19th-century French traveller, artist and historian of Islamic architecture, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804-1892) - became the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. . .
This unique, large, full-plate image . . . more than quadrupled its estimate of £90,000-120,000, rocketing the benchmark for both a Daguerreotype and record for a photograph at auction to a monumental £565,250, or $922,488.....
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