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1904 photograph by Edward Steichen

[![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/ThePondMoonlight.jpg/350px-ThePondMoonlight.jpg)](/wiki/File:ThePondMoonlight.jpg) _The Pond—Moonlight_ (1904) by Edward Steichen

_**The Pond—Moonlight**_ (also exhibited as _**The Pond—Moonrise**_[\[1\]](#cite_note-Met-1)[\[2\]](#cite_note-2)) is a [pictorialist](/wiki/Pictorialism "Pictorialism") [photograph](/wiki/Photograph "Photograph") by [Edward Steichen](/wiki/Edward_Steichen "Edward Steichen"). The photograph was made in 1904 in [Mamaroneck, New York](/wiki/Mamaroneck_(town),_New_York "Mamaroneck (town), New York"), near the home of his friend art critic [Charles Caffin](/wiki/Charles_Henry_Caffin "Charles Henry Caffin"). The photograph features a forest across a pond, with part of the Moon appearing over the horizon in a gap in the trees. _The Pond—Moonlight_ is an early photograph created by manually applying [light-sensitive gums](/wiki/Gum_bichromate "Gum bichromate"), giving the final print more than one color.

Only three known versions of _The Pond—Moonlight_ are still in existence and, as a result of the hand-layering of the gums, each is unique. One version was given by Steichen to the [Museum of Modern Art](/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art "Museum of Modern Art") and remains in its collection under the title _Moonrise, Mamaroneck, New York_.[\[3\]](#cite_note-3)[\[4\]](#cite_note-4) A second version was in the personal collection of [Alfred Stieglitz](/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz "Alfred Stieglitz"), which was donated to the [Metropolitan Museum of Art](/wiki/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art "Metropolitan Museum of Art") in 1933.[\[1\]](#cite_note-Met-1)[\[5\]](#cite_note-5) This had been reproduced in Stieglitz's photography journal _[Camera Work](/wiki/Camera_Work "Camera Work")_, No. 14 (1906).[\[6\]](#cite_note-6)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired a duplicate when it bought the [Gilman Paper Company collection](/wiki/Gilman_Paper_Company_collection "Gilman Paper Company collection"), and decided to auction it.[\[7\]](#cite_note-7) In February 2006, this print of the photograph sold for US$2.9 million,[\[8\]](#cite_note-8)[\[9\]](#cite_note-9) at the time, the highest price ever paid for a photograph at auction. The photograph was bought by gallerist [Peter MacGill](/wiki/Peter_MacGill "Peter MacGill") on behalf of a private buyer. This auction is presented in the part 6 of the BBC documentary _The Genius of Photography_.[\[10\]](#cite_note-bbc-10) The extraordinary sale price of the print is, in part, attributable to its one-of-a-kind character and to its rarity.[\[10\]](#cite_note-bbc-10)

## See also

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- [List of most expensive photographs](/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_photographs "List of most expensive photographs")
- [List of photographs considered the most important](/wiki/List_of_photographs_considered_the_most_important "List of photographs considered the most important")

## References

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01. ^ [_**a**_](#cite_ref-Met_1-0) [_**b**_](#cite_ref-Met_1-1)["Edward J. Steichen \| The Pond - Moonrise"](https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/267815). _The Metropolitan Museum of Art_. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
02. **[^](#cite_ref-2)**Ewing, William A. (3 June 2017). [_Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography_](https://books.google.com/books?id=s5ZLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22The+Pond+Moonrise%22+%22The+Pond+Moonlight%22). Thames & Hudson. [ISBN](/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)") [9780500543467](/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780500543467 "Special:BookSources/9780500543467").
03. **[^](#cite_ref-3)**["Edward Steichen. _Moonrise—Mamaroneck, New York_. 1904"](https://www.moma.org/collection/works/51812). _The Museum of Modern Art_. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
04. **[^](#cite_ref-4)**Museum of Modern Art (2013). "Edward Steichen". _MoMA Highlights: 350 Works from The Museum of Modern Art, New York_ (3rd rev. ed.). New York: Museum of Modern Art. p. 38. [ISBN](/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-0-87070-846-6](/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87070-846-6 "Special:BookSources/978-0-87070-846-6").
05. **[^](#cite_ref-5)**Naef, Weston J. (1978). "482 _The Pond—Moonrise_". _The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography_. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 456. [ISBN](/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)") [0-670-67051-0](/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-670-67051-0 "Special:BookSources/0-670-67051-0").
06. **[^](#cite_ref-6)**Steichen, Eduard J. (April 1906). Stieglitz, Alfred (ed.). ["Plate IV. Moonlight: The Pond"](https://modjourn.org/issue/bdr565092/). _Camera Work_ (14). New York.
07. **[^](#cite_ref-7)**Vogel, Carol (July 29, 2005). ["The Met Is to Auction Some of Its Photographs"](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/29/arts/design/the-met-is-to-auction-some-of-its-photographs.html). _The New York Times_.
08. **[^](#cite_ref-8)**["Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Including Works from the Gilman Paper Company Collection / Lot 6"](https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2006/important-photographs-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-including-works-from-the-gilman-paper-company-collection-n08165/lot.6.html). _Sotheby's_. Retrieved April 17, 2022.
09. **[^](#cite_ref-9)**Tooth, Roger (February 15, 2006). ["At $2.9m, Pond-Moonlight becomes world's most expensive photograph"](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/15/usa.arts). _The Guardian_.
10. ^ [_**a**_](#cite_ref-bbc_10-0) [_**b**_](#cite_ref-bbc_10-1)["Rare photo sets $2.9m sale record"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4715106.stm). _BBC News_. 2006-02-15. Retrieved 2006-12-28.

## Further reading

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- Fineman, Mia (2012). "Artifice in the Name of Art". _Faking it: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop_. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 82–85. [ISBN](/wiki/ISBN_(identifier) "ISBN (identifier)") [978-1-58839-473-6](/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58839-473-6 "Special:BookSources/978-1-58839-473-6").
- Vila, Anna; Centeno, Silvia A. (2013). "FTIR, Raman and XRF identification of the image materials in turn of the 20th century pigment-based photographs". _Microchemical Journal_. **106**: 255–262. [doi](/wiki/Doi_(identifier) "Doi (identifier)"): [10.1016/j.microc.2012.07.016](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.microc.2012.07.016).
- Ware, Mike (2006). ["Platinotype Sets Record Price for Photographs"](https://doi.org/10.1595%2F147106706X111410). _Platinum Metals Review_. **50** (2): 78–80. [doi](/wiki/Doi_(identifier) "Doi (identifier)"):[10.1595/147106706X111410](https://doi.org/10.1595%2F147106706X111410).

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