Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million

Wow. Not just some photos, but the glass negatives! Cool. I recently saw on Antique Roadshow where someone found a stack of Adams' prints at a garage sale. IIRC, those were appraised in the 5 digit range.

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This bozo's working this for all he can get. Outlandish prices for prints that he doesn't own the rights to.
Norsigian has the plates in his possession but even if they were found in the garbage, he doesn't own the rights to them and is trying to sell them as Adams prints. They may be but without a signature or provenance it really can't be proven.
The AA trust says they're not Adams' work but Norsigian is offering them as genuine, he might be able to try "in the style of" AA
"printed using the same techniques". You're probably going to see more about this in the future when the trust brings suit.
 
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Seems a bit into fantasy land for the valuation though they are very important from a historical perspective. It'll be interesting to see if they come up for auction or if a museum or university buys them outright.

Edit: IOW, the trust doesn't have enough money to buy the negs so therefore they're not real. 🙂 Let's just remember basic economics here.
 
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This bozo's working this for all he can get. Outlandish prices for prints that he doesn't own the rights to.

It's not about prints, they're the glass negatives and he did not make that estimation of 200,-. What chagrin. It's great they found this stuff and I hope a museum gets their hands on them for a fair price.

I do propose a ban on garage sale posts though, this is getting ridiculous. 😛
 
$200MM is a bit high, even for Ansel. For dem kind of rupees we're talking Rembrandt.

Anyhow if the dude owns the plates, then he owns the copyright. These plates were displaced eons ago, may have even been sold as seconds or thrown away. The dude bought them fair and straight. Thus he owns the copyright as well.

If it took 10 yrs to "prove" they were Ansel's work sounds fishy given that Adams has signature work. The museums aren't always wrong.
 
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