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Re: Ansel Adams Discovery
From: parallelcooler@ggmail.com (Kris Baker)
"David Nebenzahl" <nobody@but.us.chickens> wrote in message news:4c5076f3$0$2386$822641b3@news.adtechcomputers.com...
On 7/28/2010 11:14 AM Kris Baker spake thus:
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"Nancy2" <nancy-dooley@uiowa.edu> wrote in message news:56c0326a-8b78-42bc-95f4-95071cdd25c2@t2g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
On Jul 27, 11:54 am, "F/32 Eurydice" <f32euryd...@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:
Ansel Adams Photographs Bought at Garage Sale Worth $200 Million
Adams' son denies they are Ansel's, even though handwriting experts
and others say they are. Apparently, the owner has been trying to
prove they are Ansel's for a long time.
Obviously, Ansel's son wants to limit the number of "one-off"
prints that are available. The only way that these items are
worth $200 million, are if they're used to produce more prints.
Otherwise, they are glass with images that will deteriorate.
This isn't the end of the story. The claims will go on forever.
Probably not. But to clarify, these are not the images that AA is well known for; they're earlier works when he was still using glass plates. His later work was done on film.So there's not really that great a chance of diluting the market for his most famous images. And the images on glass plates are probably just as permanent as any of his film negatives, which after all were impeccably processed in his darkroom and are as "archival" as anything.
Some *are* of famous images; I'm sorry I can't remember which one
they gave as an example, but the snowmelt, moon angle, shadows
and (one other factor I forgot) show the image was taken within
two minutes of the famous version.
Kris
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