So, right away I recognized it as Yosemite." "As a young man, I worked at Yosemite quite a bit. "When I pulled on of those glass negatives out, I seen Yosemite," he said. Norsigian, who scours garage sales for antiques, was looking for a barber chair when he spotted to two deteriorated boxes in the spring of 2000. "And it's a portion that we thought had been destroyed in the studio fire." "This is going to show the world the evolution of his eye, of his talent, of his skill, his gift, but also his legacy," Streets said. The photographs were taken between 1919 and the early 1930s at locations familiar to Adams, mostly around Yosemite, California, Streets said.
"It truly is a missing link of Ansel Adams and history and his career," said Beverly Hills appraiser and art dealer David W.
The photographs were from the early career of the famed nature photographer, a period that is not well documented since a 1937 darkroom fire destroyed 5,000 of his plates, Arnold said. attorney, "came to the conclusion that, based on the evidence which was overwhelming, that no reasonable person would have any doubt that these, in fact, were the long-lost images of Ansel Adams," Arnold said. Arnold Peter, the lawyer who led the effort to authenticate that the negatives were made by the man known as the father of American photography, said their approach was "to put these negatives on trial."Įxperts, including a former FBI agent and a U.S.
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