In reply to Robert Durran:
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> Presumably because multiples prints are made.
> I'm sure that if, like a painting, there was only one print in excistence of an iconic Ansel Adams photo, trhen it might be worth a million or so.
Yeah that sounds about right doesn't it.
On a slightly related not. When I worked s an odd job person at the Royal Geographical Society, I 'discovered' some original prints by Carlton Watkins.
Carlton Watkins was in some respects the forerunner to Ansel Adams, being the photographer who's pics of Yosemite Valley had some time earlier provided some of the impetus for the establishment of Yosemite as a national park.
Unfortunately, there was a fire in his Studio which destroyed his original plates and prints which weren't already in collections.
I wrote my dissertation on Carlton Watkins whilst at university, so I knew what I was looking at and it was something of a shock to find them sitting neglected in a drawer at the RGS.
Nobody knew anything about them and the collections staff's response was a shrug when I mentioned it to them, the things must be worth hundreds of thousands of pounds. I suppose when you've got a bunch of Mercators knocking around, the odd Watkins goes largely unnoticed!
I found some Hokkusai prints in a drawer there too similarly uncatalogued and received a similar response. Crazy.
