A Fresno painter Rick Norsigian’s purchase of a couple of boxes of old photo negatives 10 years ago for about $45 Dollars , come to find out he was sitting on 65 glass negatives from photographer Ansel Adams. WORD!!!!! I wish , anyways they are saying that these negatives could be worth over $200 million. What a Find…. thats nuts!!!!
A website has been set up for the negatives: LostNegatives.com and images are being sold. A dark room print of a gelatin silver photograph handmade in a darkroom using the same technique used by Ansel Adams sells for $7,500. A digital print from the original negative costs $1,500.Only 250 special edition numbered prints will be made using a digital printing process and 50 numbered photographs developed in the darkroom will be available for purchase. A commemorative lithograph poster is $45.


