[rollei_list] Re: OT: Antiques Roadshow... Photography Edition

Richard -

The news report states that various "experts" were called in to address
questions such as these and the answers they can up with satisfy logic and
known facts. That does not mean that these plates are from Adams; it means
it is plausible that they are. We will likely never know for certain.

If folks understood how very many of the important pieces they see in major
museums are either fakes or acquired by improper means, they would be
amazed. The entire area of provenance is full of smoke, mirrors and
uncertainty.


Eric Goldstein

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 5:37 PM, CarlosMFreaza <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2010/7/28 Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I haven't read the published stories about this so maybe this has been
> > answered. I wonder about what dates the material is supposed to have been
> > made. Glass plates were considered obsolete except for some special
> purposes
> > after about the 1920s. ..
>
> They were from his early years as a photographer estimated somewhere
> around 1919 – 1930’s, well before he became well known
>
> > Also, does anyone know what sort of
> > materials known Adams negatives were made of during the peroid these
> > negatives were supposed to have been made by him?
>
> According Wikipedia, his first photographs about Yosemite Park were
> taken with a Kodak Brownie about 1916, however from 1917 he was taken
> photographs at the area using different cameras and lenses, it's sure
> he was using glass plates in 1927 (f.e. Monolith, the Face of Half
> Dome, taken with his Korona view camera using glass plates and a dark
> red filter)
>
> > Another also, what size
> > are they? Its fairly well known what camreras Adams was working with at
> > various times, are these negtatives consonant with those cameras?
>
> The glass plates size are 6.5"x8.5", this is the negative size for the
> Korona View Camera mentioned above (from my own brief research).
>
> This CNN article adds several details to believe the negs are AA's work:
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html?hpt=C1
>
> Carlos
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