$45 purchase of $200,000,000 negatives.

[vitols]

Saw this a couple days ago and i thought i would share it. Some guy bought some glass plates of photographic negatives at a garage sale for $45. They turned out to be the negatives from famous photographer Ansel Adams.

Take a look at the full article.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/07/27/ansel.adams.discovery/index.html

 

[Sir.Steezealot]

Lucky bastard

 

[fsscott]

That's wicked.
Garage sales rule

 

[Static]

"another man at the garage sale wasn't so lucky, upon returning home he discovered the $15 power drill he bought only worked in reverse"

fuckin' scammers

 

[Half-Blood]

Wow that is an insane find on his part, it's also a great find for the history of photography. I would love to go see those negatives up close that would be very cool.

 

[.Roockley.]

that's amazing

 

[vitols]

so unreal. makes we wanna hit up garage sales on the reg.

 

[bob1233456]

what a lucky guy.

 

[T.Rex]

dam

 

[.Duncan.]

wow thats crazy luck

 

[snwbrdmilf]

Does CNN ever proofread before they post their articles? So many typos.

 

[.frenchy]

wow, such a lucky guy.

 

[Bar_Down]

saw this shit on the news last night. thats so lucky, i'd be fuckin pumped

 

[DockEllis]

that is quite a return on investment right there, $45 to 200 mil...tough to find interest rates that good in this economy

 

[KLovelace]

the guy who sold them at his garage sale is probably face palming big time

 

[Fuck.W.M.E.]

thats exactly what I thought. I would be so fucking pissed if I was him

 

[ngates_EC]

I saw it on the new too. So crazy, lucky guy!

 

[Bar_Down]

i'd be fuckin RATTLED

 

[WikiWiki]

holy shit that is rediculous

 

[Melvs]

Ya, but according to Ansel Adam's grandson, things don't seem right... check it out.

http://theanseladamsgallery.blogspot.com/2010/07/response-to-july-27-2010-article.html

 

[Peter.]

thats nuts, its like that lady that bought a lebron jeweled pendant that turned out to be actual gems

 

[Relish_man]

saw this on Craig Ferguson last night. that guy most be so fuckin pumped.

 

[ROOS.]

this happened to some lady and they made a movie about it

its called who the fuck is jackson pollock

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0487092/

she scored big time too

 

[EthanH*]

This was in my local news.

Such a sick find.

 

[TOK]

Ridiculous, I'll buy them off him for 50$

 

[1337]

That's crazy for the guy, but also really sweet that they were able to find the images. Like the article said, many were destroyed in a fire, and finding these is really remarkable.