Sixty five pieces of 6.5 x 8.5 inch glass plate negatives have finally been authenticated as the work of Ansel Adams. Their estimated value is $200 million, but the happy owner payed $45 for them.
Before to follow the course of events it’s important to say that Ansel Adams was the father of photography in America and a very enthusiastic environmentalist. His value became nationally recognized in the 1940s, but this happened a couple of years after a darkroom fire destroyed in 1937 as many as 5,000 negatives from his early …