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April 26, 2005: Photobooks Come of Age
"Prices haven't yet reached the eye-popping amounts commanded by original photographic prints, but they are trending upwards dramatically. A first edition of Robert Frank's 1972 The Lines of My Hand sold for $5,060 at an auction at Swann in December 2004, $1,500 higher than its estimated price and $2,500 more than the work had commanded in 2002. A copy of Eikoh Hosoe's 1963 Killed by Roses sold for $1,500 in 1999--in 2004, it sold for $5,000."
