This week, the appraiser Beverly Hills with photography experts considered the work to be really, that world-renowned nature photographer.
Hobbies Rick Norsigian of picking through the piles of unwanted items at garage sales in search of antiques has paid off for Fresno, California, artist.
The two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $ 45 - negotiated over $ 70 - currently estimated at least $ 200 million, according to art appraiser Beverly Hills.
These 65 boxes of glass negatives created by renowned nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. According to experts, the negatives were destroyed in 1937 fire destroyed the darkroom 5000 plates.
"This is really the missing link in the Ansel Adams, history and career," said David W. Streets, appraiser and art dealer, who is hosting the opening pictures in his Beverly Hills, Calif., gallery Tuesday.
The photos were apparently taken between 1919 and early 1930's, long before Adams - who is known as the father of American photography - has become nationally recognized in 1940, said the streets.
"This will show the world the development of his eye, his talent, his art, his gift, but his legacy," said Streets. "And this is the part that we thought had been destroyed in a studio fire."
How do these 6.5 x 8.5 inches glass negatives famous Yosemite landscapes and sights of San Francisco - some of them with fire damage - made its way from the collection of Adams 70 years ago in Southern California garage in 2000, the sale can only guess.
The man who sold them to the garage sale Norsigian told him that he had bought them in the 1940's in stock to save in Los Angeles.
Photography expert Patrick Alt, who helped confirm the authenticity of the negatives, suspected Adams carried them for use in photography class he taught at Pasadena, Calif., in early 1940.
"It is my belief that he brought these negatives with him for training purposes and to show students how not to let their negatives engulfed in flames," Alt said. "I think this clearly explains the range of these negatives, from the earliest photography photographer boat, so images are not as successful for images at the highest level of his work during this period of time."
Alt said that it is impossible to know why Adams would keep them in Pasadena and did not return them.
Plates are individually wrapped in newspaper in the deterioration of Manila envelopes. Legend in each envelope, appears to have been made by Virginia Adams wife of a photographer, according to experts writing Michael Nattenberg and Marcel Matley. They compared them with samples grandson Adams.
Although the majority of negatives will never appear in print, some of them are virtually identical known Adams prints, experts say.
Meteorologist George Wright studied the clouds and snow cover in Norsigian negative concluded that it was made at about the same time, as is well known Adams photo tree Yosemite.
In addition to Yosemite - California, the desert, helped keep Adams - negatives depict California's Caramel Mission, the types of rocky point in Caramel, San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf, a sailing yacht in the sea and images of sand dunes.
"The fact that these places were well known to Adams, and visited him, also supports the proposal that all the images in the collection is likely to have been created Adams," says art critic Robert Muller.
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