July 30, 2010

Will the real Ansel Adams please stand up?



Historically documented Ansel Adams' photo (left) and "Uncle Earl's" photo from garage sale (right)

Are they both taken by the same photographer? If they are Adams' they would be worth $200 million!!

I am skeptical about this....the clouds don't match up, but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been taken later in the same day.

What do you think?

More photos including an overlay here and you can watch the newscast here.

2 comments:

Jed Hoon | August 1, 2010 at 11:09 AM

My question regarding their authenticity, having looked closely at so many AA reproductions, is: would AA have composed the clouds in these photographs as such? Or, would he have been more patient and waited for 'perfectly' placed clouds? I'll leave the question to you...

Samantha Cora | August 1, 2010 at 9:27 PM

Those were some thoughts I had as well, but then I also questioned whether or not he would snap a series of photos with different compositions of clouds and then choose the best from those. I guess then would that make him self-aware or self-doubting, or both?

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