It was time, they cried, to cast away that useless phantom of the civil power, and to elect for their prince and general a real soldier, educated in camps, exercised in war, who would assert the glory, and distribute among his companions the treasures, of the empire.Ī dim gray hint of morning in the rectangle of my window cannot pale the hypnogogic phantoms that dance in the dark corners of my room, mocking me for the stupid account I have written. His face in the mud, his struggles useless, Boots wondered if he had been jumped by the Phantom himself.

The philosopher, perchance, may be accounted so, but it is at the cost of too precious sacrifices at the phantom shrine of Liberty.īut he had not yet delivered his portentous message, and so he begged the phantoms to wait for him only a little while, until he fulfilled this last mission and informed the Archimage of the great danger. ( Ghost was produced in an edition of 950 with an additional 45 artist's proofs.) Both images depict a ghost-like figure within a cavern at Antelope Canyon, Arizona. The photograph is a black and white derivative of Lik's previous color image titled Ghost, and was produced as a unique print. However, many in the media and the art industry have expressed skepticism over the claimed sale price, noting that the alleged sale was handled privately instead of through an independent gallery or through an auction house (which could verify the sale), was to an anonymous buyer, and that no documentation had been provided to confirm the sale.1 Furthermore, as the Sydney Morning Herald pointed out, Lik's photographs have generally low resale values, and he has a history of self-promotion.2

In 2014, Lik alleged that a print was sold to a private collector for $6.5 million which, if true, would make it the most expensive photograph ever sold. Phantom is a photograph made in 2013 by Australian-born landscape photographer Peter Lik.

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