430万美元世界最贵照片拍了些啥？(双语)

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        An image of the Rhine by German artist Andreas Gursky has fetched $4.3m at Christie's New York, setting an auction record for a photograph.德国艺术家安德烈亚斯·古尔斯基拍摄的一幅莱茵河照片在纽约佳士得拍卖行拍出了430万美元（约合人民币2750万元）的高价，创造了照片拍卖的最高纪录，成为世界最贵照片。
        The panoramic colour print Rhein II, created in 1999, is one of an edition of six works. Others hang at New York's Museum of Modern Art and London's Tate Modern. Rhein II is the largest of the six photographs, which are produced in various sizes.这幅作品拍摄于1999年，是莱茵河全景彩照六幅系列作品中的第二幅。其他作品分别收藏于纽约现代艺术博物馆和伦敦泰特现代美术馆。莱茵河六幅系列摄影作品的尺寸各不相同，而这幅莱茵河II是其中最大的一幅。
        Gursky's print had a pre-sale estimate of $2.5m-$3.5m.古尔斯基的这幅作品的预售估价在250万到350万美元之间。
        Gursky has spoken of "a particular place with a view over the Rhine which has somehow always fascinated me, but it didn't suffice for a picture as it basically constituted only part of a picture". He said he "carried this idea for a picture around with me for a year-and-a-half. In the end I decided to digitalise the pictures and leave out the elements that bothered me.古尔斯基说，“我一直很喜欢从某个特定的位置欣赏莱茵河，但是这幅美景不能拍成一张照片，因为一张照片只能包含莱茵河的一部分。要把这个美景拍下来的念头，我一年半之前就有了。最后，我决定把照片数码化处理，略过那些一直困扰我的因素。”
        Christie's said the viewer was "not invited to consider a specific place along the river, but rather an almost 'platonic' ideal of the body of water as it navigates the landscape".佳士得拍卖行称，“这张照片驾驭了莱茵河的美景，因此，这张照片并不是想让看照片的人注意河岸上的某个特定的位置，而是去感受整片水域的一个完美状态。”