jimfet
Lunatic Member
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html?hpt=C2
I'm gonna have to start going to yard sales.
I'm gonna have to start going to yard sales.
A possible 200 million dollar find.
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VinylHanger
Navigaret ex ironia
Great. Now everyone is going to assume that any old pictures they have are worth tons of money. First vinyl, now photos. Where will it end.
onepixel
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I think anything on glass negatives would be valuable, especially for historic content. Majority of the stuff won't be worth millions or even a hundred bucks. But for preserving a glimpse of our past, it would be priceless.
mikeybc
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The ultimate score :thmbsp:
Brian
An Old Geezer
As a lover of Adams, it is not the monetary value but the discovery of 65 negs that mostly have never been printed. It will take a true experienced disciple of his to print them anything like he'd have done but I think a couple of his trainee/apprentices are still around. The negs are worth a lot but the value is in the proper printing as it is the artistic result.
Arkay
Lunatic Member
A "fabulous" find... but it isn't always as easy as it looks to make that kind of return on a good find. The guy spent ten years authenticating these (compiling evidence/proof of authenticity) before bringing them to market. It takes knowledge (to recognize what has value), luck (to find it at all, so you have a chance to recognize it), and persistence (both to find it and to cash in on it afterward). I say "Good for him!" to the guy who saved those; he deserves some reward for moving them from a garage sale to where they are going now. If the reward is a bit disproportionately generous, well... there are worse things someone can make money from!
pioneervato
Lunatic Member
Former Adams' assistant John Sexton, I believe, still prints from the Adams' archive for museums, galleries, books, and such and former assistant Alan Ross still prints the limited edition collection of images sold through the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite.
An interesting and exciting find, to say the least.
Sharpstik
Stuck in the 70's
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_ansel_adams_lost_work
Sour grapes.
Sour grapes.
pioneervato
Lunatic Member
Maybe not. Whether or not they are the real McCoy one thing is for certain, the value of the prints made from the negatives would never have the same value having never been crafted by Ansel Adams himself.
I have one print (El Capitan) from the Yosemite Special Edition Prints that Alan Ross (former assistant to Ansel Adams) prints for the Ansel Adams Gallery in Yosemite. I bought it in 1986 for $65 when I was a participant in one of the Ansel Adams Workshops sponsored by the "Friends of Photography". After the workshop we drove to Yosemite to photograph and that is when I purchased the print. 24 years later, the prints now sell for $225.
Alan Ross is a fantastic photographer and a true darkroom craftsman in his own right. So, my question is this, how many prints would the guy have to sell in order to make $200 million?
Ansel Adams generated over 45,000 negatives in his lifetime and only a very, very small percentage ever made it to print, let alone the "fine print" of which he is known for. Adams was a master when it came to printing and I have seen his work first hand many, many times over the last 25 years or so. Those who assisted Ansel Adams over the years, like Sexton, Ross, Orland, Burkett, and a few others got to know the Adams' style and his techniques of making the black and white print and would be more than qualified to print in his style since they learned from the man himself.
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