This story just gets a "WOW"...I'd like to know what Rick on Pawn Stars might offer him
Ten years ago, Rick Norsigian made a $200 million find.
The Fresno, Calif., painter — who has a penchant for antique hunting on his days off — was rummaging through boxes at a garage sale when he came across 65 glass negatives that were wrapped in newspapers from 1942 and 1943.
Turns out the negatives, which Norsigian bought for $45 after talking the seller down from $70, are those of the famous nature photographer Ansel Adams. And they’re worth hundreds of millions, according to some appraisers.
lime rickie wrote:The Adams estate is disputing their authenticity.
Of course they are. But if they had any brains at all they would announce that they are indeed
authentic. The value placed on these would make their own library of Adams negatives worth a
couple of billion.
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lime rickie wrote:The Adams estate is disputing their authenticity.
Of course they are. But if they had any brains at all they would announce that they are indeed
authentic. The value placed on these would make their own library of Adams negatives worth a
couple of billion.
There was an article about this in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The managing trustee from the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust said "The negatives aren't worth anything, even the 44,000 at the University of Arizona, because Ansel isn't around to print from them. The only authentic Ansel Adams works of art that are around are the ones that he printed." OK, if you say so.
lime rickie wrote:The Adams estate is disputing their authenticity.
Of course they are. But if they had any brains at all they would announce that they are indeed
authentic. The value placed on these would make their own library of Adams negatives worth a
couple of billion.
There was an article about this in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The managing trustee from the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust said "The negatives aren't worth anything, even the 44,000 at the University of Arizona, because Ansel isn't around to print from them. The only authentic Ansel Adams works of art that are around are the ones that he printed." OK, if you say so.
So a famous photographer's negatives aren't worth a thing because the photographer had the nerve to die? Under that same line of thinking wouldn't a Picasso be worthless because Pablo isn't around to touch it up as needed?
Well...(said in my best Bubba voice) I've been on sabbatical.
I wonder if that clown realizes what he said? If the Trust tries to sell any prints that were printed after Adams' death, by his own words, they're guilty of fraud. "The only authentic Ansel Adams works of art that are around are the ones that he printed."
lime rickie wrote:The Adams estate is disputing their authenticity.
Of course they are. But if they had any brains at all they would announce that they are indeed
authentic. The value placed on these would make their own library of Adams negatives worth a
couple of billion.
There was an article about this in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. The managing trustee from the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust said "The negatives aren't worth anything, even the 44,000 at the University of Arizona, because Ansel isn't around to print from them. The only authentic Ansel Adams works of art that are around are the ones that he printed." OK, if you say so.
I have to agree that the only authentic AA prints are the ones he printed. Developing B&W photos is an art and the final print can be changed through the development process. Negatives worthless? I don't think so. I would think they would still have a great deal of value both artistic and historic.
I think that's just it, the value of these are more historic than artistic, and the more of them that are the less each individual one is worth, so naturally the authenticity would be called into question. Think about it this way: Honus Wagner was a great baseball player, to be sure, but his card isn't worth what it is because of his stats. It's value is based on it's rarity.
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I did travel the auction/garage sale/estate sale circuit at one time. I've had some great finds (paid less than $50 for $1000+ items) but never an item worth more than $15k. I loved the thrill of the hunt and the actual purchase, hated dealing with reselling the stuff. If I could find a competent partner, I'd go back to buying in a heartbeat.
Hmmm, maybe they should have sold while they had the chance? Looks like Uncle Earl took the pictures.
The mystery of the Ansel Adams garage sale negatives keeps taking on new twists, but the latest twist might have solved it once and for all.
KTVU in Oakland is reporting that a Bay Area woman named Mariam l. Walton has come forward with apparently solid proof that the photographs were not taken by Ansel Adams but her Uncle Earl.
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