Robert C. Moeller III, a former curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and one of the experts hired by Rick Norsigian, to evaluate the negatives believed to have been lost works of Ansel Adams, stated that after further review he had concluded that the images Mr. Norsigian purchased were indeed taken by photographer, Earl Brooks.
“I made a mistake,” said Mr. Moeller, a former curator of European decorative arts and sculpture at the Boston museum, who was part of the team that in July announced the discovery of what it called Adams’s “lost negatives.”
Moeller said that his reversal last week came after examining four pictures presented by Marian Walton, niece of Earl Brooks. Walton said her uncle took at least one of the photos Norsigian and his team have represented as the work of Adams. After reviewing additional high resolution images of Yosemite also created by Brooks, Moeller agreed the photos had indeed taken by Brooks.
“It didn’t take me long to say they were same camera, same time, same man,” Mr. Moeller said in an interview. “My report, which said there was a high probability that Ansel Adams took the photos, has got to change.”
(via NYTimes)