The Auction House, the Hammer and the NFT 

Report by Stuart Sontier and John B Turner for PhotoForum Online, March 2022

Webb’s auction house in Auckland recently put up two scans of early 20th Century glass plate negatives as NFTs for an online auction. Their first foray into this environment netted $51,250 for an image of the artist posing at his easel and $76,250 for the view of him surrounded by his painting in his studio. The auction estimates were between $5,000 - $8,000 each.

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