Photography Investments Can Profit $$$ Millions

Weston’s Nautilus Shell

Photography is a big investment.

It is possible for a photographer to become a millionaire, just look at the person who invested on Edward Weston’s photography.

A picture sold by Edward Weston for US$10 at a gallery in 1927 has now auctioned and sold for $1 million in New York.

Weston’s Nautilus Shell photo bowed out for $1,082,500 at the Sotheby’s on April 13.

Observers were surprised as this doubled the estimate price of $500,000.

The pricey Weston photography was owned by a young photographer Bernice Lovett, he purchased the illustrious image at San Francisco’s East West Galleries.

The Nautilus Shell by Weston was kept in an ideal early state of the image, on matte-surface photographic paper, affixed to a large mount that bears Weston’s early penciled signature, according to Sotheby.

So if you’re a art collector or a photographer keep an eye on promising talent, you’ll never know that keeping their works may result in a retirement plan for you 25 years from now!

Edward Weston is an American photographer who was born in 1886 and passed away in 1958. Weston is the founder of San Francisco famed photography group called Group f/64.  He uses a 8×10 inch view camera with most of his works.

Weston’s photographic style was characterized by sharp-focused and carefully framed images seen through a particularly Western (U.S.) viewpoint.

According to Weston “”The camera sees more than the eye”.

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