Lawyer: Negatives verified as Ansel Adams' work - San Jose Mercury News: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — A lawyer says a trove of old glass negatives found in Fresno have been authenticated as the work of iconic photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million.
Arnold Peter says a team of experts has concluded the 65 negatives are Adams' early work believed destroyed in a fire decades ago. Their report is set to be released at a press conference Tuesday morning in Beverly Hills.
The negatives were bought 10 years ago at a garage sale in Fresno for $45 by a local painter, Rick Norsigian.
Norsigian noticed the negatives resembled Adams' famed photographs of Yosemite National Park and hired Peter to assemble a team of experts.
Adams is best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, mainly images of the landscape. He died in 1984 at 82.
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