If Ansel Adams were alive today he would probably be pleasantly surprised at this return on investment. Rick Norsigian found a couple of dusty old boxes of glass negatives at a garage sale and bought them for a song. It took him 10 years but he’s finally confident experts the pictures were taken by Ansel Adams, photographer. Now he hopes to get the return on his $ 45 investment. Now these photos have been appraised for about $ 200 million. Post resource – A $ 45 investment in Ansel Adams negatives returns $ 200 million by Personal Money Store.
Ansel Adams work in a garage sale
Ansel Adams died in 1984 and created black and white pictures of the American West. California’s Yosemite National Park is where his most famous pictures were shot. CNN reports that Norsigian bought two boxes of glass negatives at a garage sale for $ 45 after dickering the price down from $ 70. Robert Moeller who’s an art expert concluded that “with a high degree of probability, that the images under consideration were produced by Ansel Adams,” reports CNN.
’Missing link’ in Ansel Adams life is what these pictures are
Within the photographer’s career, these photos seem to be a “missing link” reports CNN who was told by David W. Streets, art dealer. July 27, these photos were shown at the Beverly Hills gallery. $ 200 million is the lowest amount Norsigian will get for a return on his investment. 5,000 plates were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire although these 65 negatives seem to have made it.
Zone System created by Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams’ Yosemite photos didn’t become famous until the 1940s, while these photos were taking between 1919 and also the 1930s. A Wikipedia page on Adams reports that he co-developed a way to determine proper exposure and adjust the contrast of the final print, and he called it the Zone System. This is what determines the difference between Ansel Adams photos and other photos. Adams used big, heavy, expensive high-resolution large-format cameras to ensure sharpness in his images.
Finding numerous Ansel Adams negatives
Many people nevertheless doubt Ansel Adams garage sale photographs being real. The blog, Croanca, points out the individuals within the CNN article might not be at all qualified to say that these are really Ansel Adams photographs. Admirers of Ansel Adams worry about adequate reproduction of the plates. A commenter at visualjournalism.info wonders whether anybody today can print the Ansel Adams negatives in a way that does them justice.
CNN
cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/?hpt=Sbin
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams
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