Finding Lucky Wealth: The Ansel Adams Lotto

[The Gemini Method]

The Associated Press
Published: July 27, 2010
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - A trove of old glass negatives bought at a garage sale for $45 have been authenticated as the lost work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million, an attorney for the owner said Tuesday.



A team of experts concluded after an exhaustive, six-month examination that the 65 negatives are Adams' early work, which were believed to have been destroyed in a 1937 fire at his Yosemite National Park studio, Arnold Peter said.

"These photographs are really the missing link," he said. "They really fill the void in Ansel Adams' early career."

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jul/27/ansel-adams-negatives-bought-garage-sale-worth-200/

[CubanMustGo]

How would you like to be the idiot who sold these for $45?

[The Gemini Method]

How would you like to be the idiot who sold these for $45?

Fa/tal

[baseline bum]

Supposedly the value from Adams' work is in how he manipulated contrast and brightness levels in creating his prints from the negatives, so that $200 million figure may be a bit high.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100727/ap_on_en_ot/us_ansel_adams_lost_work

[The Gemini Method]

Seems that it could possibly be fraudulent...but this seems to go on everytime someone finds something that may be of value...

[IronMexican]

Supposedly the value from Adams' work is in how he manipulated contrast and brightness levels in creating his prints from the negatives, so that $200 million figure may be a bit high.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100727/ap_on_en_ot/us_ansel_adams_lost_work

Unless you were a complete idiot, you'd still be set for lyfe.