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From: Bruce on 22 Jun 2010 06:00 On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:05:19 -0700, Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote: > >http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/21/1219995/ansel-adams-print-sells-for-722k.html A bargain at $722. View it for free here: http://historyofourworld.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/ansel-adams/
From: David Ruether on 22 Jun 2010 11:19 "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message news:2010062123051917709-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... > http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/21/1219995/ansel-adams-print-sells-for-722k.html > -- > Regards, > > Savageduck 8^), but I know you meant "722k"...;-) A horror story: on a trip through the west in the 1970s, we stopped at the Adams studio in Yosemite. Available were various mounted 8x10 signed Adams prints. These were made by assistants, but, they *were* signed by Adams... The only available space for storage in the car was under everything in the back rear window shelf, since there were three of us, and we were tent-camping. I was not sure that any photo would travel very well there and my money was also very limited, so I bought only one (at $25, as in, $25!!! ;-). While the photos available were not among Adam's most famous, but still...;-) A few years later, I sold that photo for $850(!). Much more recently, one was appraised on "Antiques Roadshow" for $3,000(!!!). Sigh! Buying a bunch of those would have done better than most good stocks. OK, here is a sad one (maybe...). A friend has a friend who owns a very large print of the famous "Sunrise Hernandez". Rather than properly framing it, he attached it to a wall in his house with wallpaper paste! U G H ! ! ! 8^( --DR
From: Mike Russell on 22 Jun 2010 16:14 On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:19:05 -0400, David Ruether wrote: > OK, here is a sad one (maybe...). A friend has a friend who owns > a very large print of the famous "Sunrise Hernandez". Rather than > properly framing it, he attached it to a wall in his house with wallpaper > paste! U G H ! ! ! 8^( Was it a gelatin print? If so, get a skilsaw and trade your FOAF for some new wallboard. OTOH, many of Adam's prints were made available as posters rather than prints. My local bank has two very large Adams prints on the wall - a reason for my staying there years after they kept adding more and more fees. -- Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com
From: David Ruether on 22 Jun 2010 18:10 "Mike Russell" <groupsRE(a)MOVEcurvemeister.com> wrote in message news:ioo1ylh6fruv.dlg(a)mike.curvemeister.com... > On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:19:05 -0400, David Ruether wrote: >> OK, here is a sad one (maybe...). A friend has a friend who owns >> a very large print of the famous "Sunrise Hernandez". Rather than >> properly framing it, he attached it to a wall in his house with wallpaper >> paste! U G H ! ! ! 8^( > Was it a gelatin print? If so, get a skilsaw and trade your FOAF for some > new wallboard. OTOH, many of Adam's prints were made available as posters > rather than prints. My local bank has two very large Adams prints on the > wall - a reason for my staying there years after they kept adding more and > more fees. > -- > Mike Russell - http://www.curvemeister.com It was a silver-gelatin print - but it is likely that the photo would span more than one sheet of wallboard (and even more likely that it is mounted on plaster). Perhaps a good restorer could remove it... I don't remember the particulars, but I seem to remember that the print had some direct relationship with Adams himself. --DR
From: Peter on 22 Jun 2010 19:21
"David Ruether" <d_ruether(a)thotmail.com> wrote in message news:hvqk99$mkk$1(a)ruby.cit.cornell.edu... > > "Savageduck" <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> wrote in message > news:2010062123051917709-savageduck1(a)REMOVESPAMmecom... > >> http://www.modbee.com/2010/06/21/1219995/ansel-adams-print-sells-for-722k.html >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Savageduck > > 8^), but I know you meant "722k"...;-) > A horror story: on a trip through the west in the 1970s, we stopped > at the Adams studio in Yosemite. Available were various mounted > 8x10 signed Adams prints. These were made by assistants, but, they > *were* signed by Adams... The only available space for storage in > the car was under everything in the back rear window shelf, since > there were three of us, and we were tent-camping. I was not sure > that any photo would travel very well there and my money was also > very limited, so I bought only one (at $25, as in, $25!!! ;-). While the > photos available were not among Adam's most famous, but still...;-) > A few years later, I sold that photo for $850(!). Much more recently, > one was appraised on "Antiques Roadshow" for $3,000(!!!). Sigh! > Buying a bunch of those would have done better than most good > stocks. > OK, here is a sad one (maybe...). A friend has a friend who owns > a very large print of the famous "Sunrise Hernandez". Rather than > properly framing it, he attached it to a wall in his house with wallpaper > paste! U G H ! ! ! 8^( Understandable: the latest shootin topic was wallpaper. -- Peter |