When one man's junk ended up to be another's fortune
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Adams heirs skeptical about lost negatives claimBy CHRISTINA HOAG, Associated Press Writer Wed Jul 28, 3:37 am ET
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – It's an antique collector's dream: buying an old box at a garage sale and discovering it contains famous lost works worth a fortune.
That's what Rick Norsigian said happened to him. Ten years ago, the Fresno painter stumbled upon a trove of 65 old glass negatives that he says have been authenticated as the work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams, possibly worth $200 million.
"This is absolutely beyond what I thought," the 64-year-old said at a press conference held at a Beverly Hills art gallery on Tuesday. "I'm very lucky."
Norsigian's lawyer Arnold Peter said a team of experts who studied the negatives over the past six months concluded "beyond a reasonable doubt" that the photos were Adams' early work, and they were believed to have been destroyed in a 1937 fire at his Yosemite National Park studio.
"These photographs are really the missing link," he said. "They really fill the void in Ansel Adams' early career."
Adams is renown for his timeless black-and-white photographs of the American West, which were produced with darkroom techniques that heightened shadows and contrasts to create mood-filled landscape portraits. He died in 1984 at 82.
His photographs today are widely reproduced on calendars, posters and in coffee-table books. His prints are coveted by collectors.
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