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Photos bought for £30 at jumble sale worth £128 million
A pile of dusty negatives bought at a jumble sale were by one of America's most legendary photographers - and are worth £128million.
The 65 glass-plate prints were snapped up by Californian artist and builder Rick Norsigian at a sale in 2000 after he haggled them down to just £30.
And after an intensive six-month examination, experts have confirmed they are by celebrated US nature photographer Ansel Adams. Born in 1902, Adams is best known for his moody blacka n d -w h i t e landscape depictions of the US West. His work was so revered that President Jimmy Carter awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980, the highest civilian honour in the States.
Adams also invented a photographic technique, called the Zone System, which helped determine the perfect exposure and gave his pictures their distinctive clarity.
The collection of photos include a handful of Adams' famous Yosemite National Park landscapes, as well as San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf and California's Carmel Mission.
No one knows how the negatives ended up at the Californian garage sale in 2000, but the seller told Mr Norsigian that he bought them back in the 1940s at a Los Angeles warehouse sale.
And, although a few have been damaged by fire, most are in nearperfect condition.
Norsigian said yesterday: "When I heard that $200million figure, I got a little weak. This has been such a long journey."
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