The greatest garage sale story of the last decade is probably not true. Which makes me crestfallen. It gave me the idea that I could possibly make 200 million dollars buying other people’s discarded items.
So now all I have is a handful of bras and my own misery. Copyright pending. There was a incredible hullabaloo raised last month, a cacophony of hullabaloo over found old-fashioned glass-plate photo-negatives of nature scenes from Yosemite and California at a garage sale in Fresno. They were rumored to have been done by Ansel Adams, one of America’s most beloved photographers and environmentalists. And rumored to be worth a whopping 200 million dollars if they turned out to be authentic, which would fund the sale of a state park to the owner. Unfortunately, they’ve turned out to be fakes, taken by someone’s deceased uncle.
Which begs the question, if people hadn’t initially noticed that they WEREN’T really Ansel Adams photographs, would they actually be sold for that amount? Would a man now have 200 million dollars that before belonged to wealthy industrialists, and now he just harbors a grudge.
That’d be an interesting premise for a movie. Michael Bay, get on the Ansel Adams story. You can blow up the most beloved national parks.
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S.E.Hendriksen
August 4th, 2010 - 1:53:23 AM
From the final report “In my opinion, based on a reasonable degree of meteorological probability, the clouds present in each photograph in type, elevation and sky coverage. Based upon the clouds in the photographs and the snow cover present in the mountains, it is my opinion that these photographs were taken on the same day.” GEORGE WRIGHT, Meteorologist Hmm.... the snowcover didn't fit http://www.glar.gl/Adams%20or%20Uncle%20Earl.xps
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