99 Cent II Diptychon

99 Cent II Diptychon is a two-part colour photograph made by Andreas Gursky in 2001.

99 Cent II Diptychon is a new version of a photo made previously in 1999, while Gursky was in Los Angeles.

[2] The photograph is constructed like an architectural drawing with the horizontal shelves of the supermarket perpendicular to its vertical columns.

On the question if the picture is meant as a critic of the consumer society, Claire Guillot, writing for the French newspaper Le Monde, states that "The artist, who first dreamed of being a painter, was always much more interested in the ordering of objects in space, in the internal organization of an image, than in the reality that it depicts.

"[3] The work became famous as being the most expensive photograph in the world when it was auctioned at Sotheby's on February 7, 2007, for a price of US$3.34 million.