Okay, spoke too soon; I've now found attributed quotes that are at least clear that the family is NOT currently accepting these as real. In <http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38432829/ns/today-entertainment/>, Adams' grandson says "...the writing on the sleeves of the negatives, which is attributed to Ansel Adams' wife, Virginia, is inconsistent with other samples of her handwriting and contains a number of misspellings of the names of places in Yosemite that Virginia would have known how to spell." Also: "This is an elaborate fraud, intended purely to make money," said Bill Turnage, Managing Trustee of the Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Ansel Adams' former business manager. The forensic discussion should be interesting, as the experts try to settle the issue rationally. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b@xxxxxxxx; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info
