A Fresno, California man who enjoys yard-saling (as we call it down here, or at least my family did) bought a box of Ansel Adams' glass negatives at a garage sale about a decade ago. The man holding the sale wanted $70 for them, but Rick Norsigian haggled him down to $45. The man told him he had bought them in the 1940s at a warehouse salvage in Los Angeles. Experts say these are the Ansel Adams negatives believed to have been destroyed in a fire, and some of them do bear fire damage. But, more importantly (to Rick Norsigian, at least), they say the negatives are worth a staggering $200 million!
Ansel Adams is one of the most important and influential American photographers in history, largely known as the "father" of American photography. The images will be unveiled today in Beverly Hills.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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The Ansel Adams Trust is now suing Norsigian over the sale of several prints.
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