it certainly wouldn't be the first time art experts have been wrong about an attribution!
I'm very interested at the moment in a similar story, about a 'new' Leonardo da Vinci. Martin Kemp, one of the world's foremost authorities on Leonardo, has authenticated the drawing partly on fingerprint evidence, and has published a book about it, La Bella Principessa. However, other experts disagree quite strongly. <http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/108/108994/10899455/jpg/active/320x.jpg > In last week's New Yorker there was a fascinating article about the man who does the fingerprint work. The article basically calls him a con-man and a charlatan. <http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/07/12/100712fa_fact_grann> Personally I hope Kemp is right, fingerprints or not. I have several of his excellent books, and to be wrong on something of this magnitude could well destroy his reputation. I also hope the new Ansels are indeed Ansel's, but even if they're not it will be interesting to see what becomes of the pictures and whether or not Uncle Earl becomes known as a great photographer. Both stories of course bring to mind the shameful episode of the van Meegeren Vermeers. Bob > A likely story, (no, I mean really). > > On 7/29/2010 1:15 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > Latest news: It seems very likely that they're *not* Ansel Adams negs. > > http://www.ktvu.com/news/24432262/detail.html > > > > > http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/201 > 0/ > > 07/mystery-solved-theyre-by-uncle-earl.html > > > > > > > -- > {\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 > Courier New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 I've just upgraded to Thunderbird 3.0 and the > interface subtly weird.\par } > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
