Ansel Adams, Photographing Hummingbirds, CATCH Magazine, Digital Workflow
TweetIn our post the other day, we spread the news about the discovery of lost glass plates purportedly belonging to Ansel Adams and apparently worth as much as $200 million in this report on CNN. Well not so fast!
In this first article, the family and the Ansel Adams Trust doubt the authenticity of the glass plates, despite experts authenticating them.
In this post the issue is raised and questions asked as the whether the buyer of these glass plates even has a legal right to sell copyrighted prints from the original plates. I am no lawyer so I don’t know, but my limited abilities at legal analysis would make me think NO. I would think it is the image that is copyrighted, not the negative, camera, tripod, processing lab, or glass plates used to create the image.
And then a woman says in this report that her Uncle Earl photographed Yosemite often and during the same time Ansel Adams did and she has some of his prints, one which apparently appears to have been taken exactly from the same spot and only minutes after the alleged Ansel Adams image purchased from a Fresno garage sale and printed.
Rick Norsigian, the purchaser of the glass plates has responded to the allegations here.
We will hear more about this i am sure.
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I vote for the “Uncle Earl” option. He lived in Fresno so it is far more believable that he took the photos than that Ansel Adams took them to Fresno, stored them there, then forgot about them. I’ve read the report of the ‘expert’ panel and there is an awful lot of supposition in it but little to no hard evidence. And how are some criminal investigators better judges than folks like the Smithsonian and other art experts who all declined to authenticate them? It sounds like they went shopping to find people who were willing to agree with the outcome they wanted.
Hey Jim-
I am with you. It’s just to good to be true otherwise. I think several shots in question do like like Ansel’s style, but it was the niece of Uncle Earl who convinced me otherwise. The two images, one from the glass plate and the other in the niece’s collection, appears to be exactly the same spot and same day with only slightly different clouds. That is more convincing than a hand writing expert or those who suggest they must be authentic because they are in Ansel’s style. Best, Charlie