Lost Ansel Adams Photos Worth $200 Million

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Imagine purchasing glass negatives at a garage sale for $45 only discover that they were worth $200 million. It took ten years but that's what happened to Rick Norsigian. CBS News reported on July 27, 2010 that an art appraiser has confirmed the negatives were photographs taken by renowned photographer Ansel Adams.

The discovery of 65 glass plates were confirmed to be the work of Adams, feared to have been lost in a darkroom fire in 1937. CNN reported that Norsigian purchased the glass plates at a garage sale in 2000 in southern California for just $45, originally listed at $70.

The theory of why they survived is that Adams, who is consider by many to be the "father of American photography", was teaching a photography class in Pasadena in the 1940's and brought them to show his students, which explains why they weren't part of the larger collection lost in that fire. Adams died in 1984.

Beverly Hills art appraiser David Streets verified the authenticity of the photographs as belonging to Adams, and stated to CNN, "It truly is a missing link of Ansel Adams and history and his career." Most of the negatives have never been printed, but several closely resembled well-known Adams prints. Streets estimated that the photos could earn as much as $200 million for Norsigian when he sells original prints of the photographs to museums and collectors.

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[MrPeterFinland]

FAKE!

[ptboyindenver]

Misleading in so many ways.

1)$200m - total retail over 20 yrs, not value now.

2)Only 1 guy says they're authentic. AA trust says not.

3)Many photogs took the same pictures near the same time. A woman in CA says her father took them and she has one on her wall.

4)Copyright belongs to either AA's trust or public domain. If public domain, there are lots of scanners out there.

5)He can't use AA's name when selling them, that DEFINITELY belongs to the trust.

The court fight will be interesting.

[donahocker]

great job dude



[Aardsbijtje]

Stunning!

[BLAZAR777]

The world is richer to have these new pictures released .

[ReliableInsider]

It kind of makes you wonder how much all of the photos and other negatives in the darkroom would have been worth if they had survived.

I think I'm gonna go to more garage sales . . . after I check my smoke alarm.

[n64roo]

one... lucky... bugger!

[goofy932]

Thank you for this video. Those photograph negatives look amazing!

Selling them for 200 Million USD sounds a bargain, considering the value of Zimbab.... ,i mean, the US dollar.