Million dollar photo - of a potato

[packman]

Spud photo for a million (actually 1 million Euros)- where did I put that camera?



http://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-abosch-career-art-and-famous-portraits-2016-1

[Shankapotomus]

1. Please don't tell me Malala paid $150,000

for one of these portraits.

I hope it was a gift.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Damn, I had my shoot wth taterguy scheduled for this week

[Arugula Latte]

5. Were you going to use this for the shoot?

[pinboy3niner]

6. Only if he slipped out of the handcuffs

[Arugula Latte]

7. Then you'd have to go Dick Cheney on his ass.

[malthaussen]

3. Which goes to prove an old saying about a fool and his money.

Well, when you have billions, a lousy mil isn't so much, after all. But imagine the howls of anguish if it were for taxes.

-- Mal

[WinkyDink]

4. Ah, so the gimmick is to have a pure black background for the subject. Got it.

[Laffy Kat]

8. Looks like a turd to me, but what do I know. nt

[jpak]

9. Potatoe?

That's the 10th planet...

[pokerfan]

10. It represents the ontological struggle of the human experience

“I see commonalities between humans and potatoes that speak to our relationship as individuals within a collective species. Generally, the life of a harvested potato is violent and taken for granted. I use the potato as a proxy for the ontological study of the human experience.”

http://wgntv.com/2016/02/02/potato-photo-sells-for-more-than-1-million/

[mackerel]

11. Well when you put it like that...