£500,000 daguerreotype sets new record for photograph
London’s main photograph auctions took place last week. The high point of the series came at Christie’s on May 20 in a single-owner evening auction of daguerreotypes by the French photographer Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, when this image of the Temple of Olympian Zeus on the Acropolis sold for £500,000, reckoned by the auctioneers to be a new auction high for a photograph.
Like the other half dozen Athenian views in the sale, the 71/2in x 91/2in
(20 x 24cm) whole-plate d…