California garage-sale mystery: Junk — or Ansel Adams?
“We’ve looked at them, and they’re not Ansel Adams’ negatives,” Matthew Adams said. “I’ve heard some people build greenhouses out of glass-plate negatives. Maybe that ought to be considered in this case.”
Matthew Adams: Ansel Adams grandson
The above quote comes from an article about some alleged Ansel Adams glass plate negatives that were bought in 2000 at a garage sale. It seems that this guy Norsigian bought some negs for 45 bucks that may in fact be early Ansel Adams work that may have escaped a fire.
Now sure, there may be no real way to authenticate them but it seems from the article and the grandson’s comment that the Adams estate is miffed and afraid. Miffed that they may lose out on millions if these are authenticated, and afraid for the very same reason. They lose $$$$ and that seems to be the real issue here. It’s something that I think Ansel would have likely been ashamed of had he lived to hear it.
Sure, Ansel worked like a demon to keep money coming in. It’s always been hard to be an artist and photography is no different today than it was back when he was working. However, it seems now that the children and the “foundation” that keeps his “trademark” is more about trademark and money than they are at perhaps the “art” that their progenitor worked so hard on and loved so much.
At the very least if these cannot be authenticated they could have the decency to be nice as I am sure Ansel would have been.
Wildlife In The Back Yard
Velociturkey Stand Off
New house, new critters. We also have a sizeable red fox that just passed my window with what looked like a plump squirrel in its mouth… Perhaps I can catch him next…
I opened an Etsy account today
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