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Ansel Adams Trust Sues Over Calif. Garage Sale Negatives

SAN JOSE, Calif. (Aug. 23) -- A group representing Ansel Adams sued a Fresno man Monday for selling prints and posters under the name of the famed nature photographer, the latest salvo in a dispute over glass negatives bought at a garage sale and purported to be Adams' lost work. The lawsuit, filed in federal district...

Did This Woman Just Solve the Ansel Adams Mystery?

(July 29) -- Is Uncle Earl the next Ansel Adams? According to one resident of Oakland, Calif., the answer is yes. After two days of debate over a newly surfaced collection of 65 photographic negatives attributed to the legendary environmental photographer -- a cache said to be worth a cool $200 million, if genuine --...

Ansel Adams Negatives Controversy: 5 Other Great Lost Artwork Debates

(July 28) -- Ten years ago, Rick Norsigian, a commercial painter in Fresno, Calif., found a box of glass film negatives at a garage sale and bargained the price down from $70 to $45. After extensive research on Ansel Adams and his purchases, meetings with with curators and historians, and hiring an entertainment lawyer and...

Ansel Adams' Grandson: 'Lost' Negatives Aren't Real

(July 27) -- A California man who bought a collection of glass negatives at a garage sale says they have been authenticated as lost works of Ansel Adams, but the photographer's grandson isn't so sure. "I think it's irresponsible to claim that they're Ansel's," Matthew Adams told AOL News. "We think it's a very...