[pure-silver] Re: Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale worth $200 million
- From: Don Sweet <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:48:30 +1200
Peter
Surely you don't ask the FBI or the Attorney General or forensics experts about
the authenticity of artworks, and try to build a case "beyond reasonable
doubt". Using those strategies, commonly employed in adversarial litigation,
such as a criminal trial, just makes me more sceptical. Not to put too fine a
point on things, people have not just been jailed for life, they been sentenced
to death on the basis of statements like that, only to be pardoned posthumously
with the help of DNA analysis.
If these are Adams' negatives, shouldn't we be hearing from experts such as
curators, and colleagues and workmates of Adams, and of course his family?
My main point of course was that any coherent principle of compensation for
mistakes of this sort would need to work both ways.
Don Sweet
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From: Peter Badcock
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Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:03 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Experts: Ansel Adams photos found at garage sale
worth $200 million
On 28 July 2010 15:35, Don Sweet <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A good answer to this question must also deal with the possibility that they
aren't by Adams.
The more I read the lawyer's statement as reported in the CNN article the
less confident I became. It sounds like a closing address to a jury:
Experts, including a former FBI agent and a U.S. attorney, "came to the
conclusion that, based on the evidence which was overwhelming, that
no reasonable person would have
any doubt that these, in fact, were the long-lost images of Ansel
Adams," Arnold said
So, if all the "reasonable" people are later shown to be wrong, and some
future buyer is looking at a loss of $200m, who should compensate whom?
Don Sweet
Don, did you gloss over the following paragraph ?
"I have sent people to prison for the rest of their lives for far less
evidence than I have seen in this case," said evidence and burden of proof
expert Manny Medrano, who was hired by Norsigian to help authenticate them. "In
my view, those photographs were done by Ansel Adams."
If Manny is lying then bad luck for the buyer and/or those in prison.
Peter
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