“Shaking like a little child’: “Cash for Rares” dealer auctions camera for 14 million euros. Oskar Barnack (1879–1936) revolutionized photography because he was an asthmatic and invented the Leica so that he no longer had to carry heavy equipment.
“I was able to knock down a killer price of a whopping 12 million euros,” says the art and antiques dealer, “plus the buyer’s premium that was 14.4 million. ”