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    ARMENIAN MAN STUMBLES ON TREASURE AT GARAGE SALE
    ALEXANDRIA HEIN

    asbarez
    Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

    Ten years ago in California, Rick Norsigian purchased two small boxes
    containing 65 glass negatives for $45. Today those glass negatives
    are being identified as belonging to famous nature photographer Ansel
    Adams, and are valued at $200 million.

    CNN.com reports that the negatives are dated back to a 1937 darkroom
    fire that destroyed 5,000 of Adam's plates. David W. Streets, an art
    dealer and appraiser believes that the photos were taken between 1919
    and 1930s, before Adams became well known.

    Photography expert Patrick Alt believes that Adams carried the
    negatives to a class he was teaching in Pasadena, California, which
    would help to explain how they wound up in a Los Angels warehouse.

    This is where the person who sold the negatives to Norsigian found
    them in a 1940s warehouse salvage.

    The negatives are of Yosemite landscapes and San Francisco landmarks,
    areas well known to Adams. "It is truly a missing link of Ansel Adams
    and history and his career," said Streets, who will put the works on
    display tonight in Los Angeles.

    Norsigian, an artist himself, has been working to prove the
    authenticity of these photographs since the purchase in 2000.




    From: A. Papazian
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