[rollei_list] Re: OT: Antiques Roadshow... Photography Edition
- From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:41:18 -0500
At 12:10 PM 7/28/2010, you wrote:
Authenticity will never be proved. And I doubt that legal ownership,
including reproduction rights, will be either, but that varies
markedly from country to country and even state to state...
Eric Goldstein
I have no clear thoughts about ownership, reproduction rights, etc.,
but it would seem that at least some of the negatives should link to
known prints sold by Adams. It may be that since they appear to all
be on glass plates they are so old that no commercial use was made of
them and no validated prints exist, so Eric may be right about the
Authenticity issue.
I have strong memories of a story told by a friend and his wife who
visited Adams (when that was allowed) and they ordered a print from
him. He had some assistant haul out a sample print and the
negative. I have seen the print but don't remember which one it
is. It has now passed on to his son or daughter in the San Fransisco area.
To continue their purchasing experience, the negative was attached to
a printing instruction sheet which the assistant would use to make
the print for sale. (Dodging, burning, cropping, not sure what
else). It thus seems that to be declared authentic the package would
have to include a negative as well as that instruction sheet.
Don Williams
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