Iconic French Magazine Paris Match Auctioning Historic Photos via Ethereum NFTs

Paris Match, the French magazine world-renowned for its photojournalism, announced Monday that it will auction a series of archival photos as NFTs to commemorate the publication’s 75th anniversary. 

The auction, which begins today, will feature 75 Ethereum NFTs of iconic photos from the Paris Match archives. The digital files will also come with numbered and signed physical prints of the same images. Starting bids for each photo will begin at 0.3 ETH, a sum worth about $1,062 at writing. 

Paris Match photos selected for today’s sale include those featuring such cultural icons as The Rolling Stones, Jack Nicholson, Orson Welles, and John Travolta, as well as news reports on the Berlin Wall, Harlem, and the Tour de France. 

For the auction, Paris Match has partnered with photo NFT platform Focus Bloc and SuperRare, the NFT marketplace….