A Bay Area woman may have solid proof to support the assertions of the Ansel Adams estate that negatives a Fresno man bought at a yard sale were not taken by the famed nature photographer as he claims. She thinks they may have been taken by her Uncle Earl.
via KTVU San Francisco, via The Online Photographer.
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From Christina Hoag’s AP story :
“”It’s an unfortunate fraud,” said Bill Turnage, managing director of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust. “It’s very distressing.”
Turnage said he’s consulting lawyers about possibly suing Norsigian for using a copyrighted name for commercial purposes. He described Norsigian as on an “obsessive quest.”
“We’ve been dealing with him for a decade,” he said. “I can’t tell you how many times he’s called me.”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j2f9n7NC02rLPFNtita9WZOR-wdwD9H7MGIO0
I had to laugh when this post popped up in my in box. I’ll take odds that Uncle Earls prints will now have some notoriety. He wont be famous like Ansel but hey a few days will work for some. Uncle Earl and Ansel are sitting together saying Rick Norsigian is “wishing on a star”.
What a person won’t do for some publicity… but then again, who knows?
PetaPixel aligned the Ansel image with an Uncle Earl one and they look like they were taken in the same session, the shadows & tree branches line up.
http://www.petapixel.com/2010/07/29/ansel-adams-garage-sale-mystery-apparently-solved/
My inner thrift-store-scavenging-self just cried a little bit.
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