Are they Adams or no? Those glass negatives purported to be the lost, fire-damaged work of Ansel Adams might not be his after all. An appraiser who is a “charismatic” convicted felon? With a history of untreated manic depression? Who claims to have celebrity friends who claim not to know him? This is starting to read a lot like a book I read recently, Provenance, about a super-tremendous 1990s art fraud. I’m staying tuned…
photo credit: Eric Paul Zamora/Fresno Bee/MCT, via Getty via NYT
Are they Adams or no? Those glass negatives purported to be the lost, fire-damaged work of Ansel Adams might not be his after all. An appraiser who is a “charismatic” convicted felon? With a history of untreated manic depression? Who claims to have celebrity friends who claim not to know him? This is starting to read a lot like a book I read recently, Provenance, about a super-tremendous 1990s art fraud. I’m staying tuned…
photo credit: Eric Paul Zamora/Fresno Bee/MCT, via Getty via NYT
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