RE: [Leica] London travel report and famous negatives

["Dennis Warters" <dbsvideo@gci-net.com>]

They are located at the University of Arizona in Tucson in the Center for
creative Photography. Right next door to the building I'm sitting in!!! They
do indeed have the Adams collection as well as many others.  The even have
most of Lagar's books in the library there!!  I think it is possible to view
the prints by app. check out this web site. -Dennis
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/branches/ccp/ccphome.html

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Frank
> Filippone
> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 1999 6:36 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: RE: [Leica] London travel report and famous negatives
>
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> While I'm on the topic, I've heard that an American University has Ansel
> Adams negatives it makes available to students to print from.
>
>
> I have forgotten specifically which colllege it is, but I remember it in
> Phoenix, Flagstaff or Tucson, someone else may remember,,,
> It is the same place he gifted his entire set of negs to.....University of
> Arizona ????
>
> But the story goes that you must have the right credentials, right
> introduction letter, and you work from what I remember as "work
> negatives"..... exact copies.  The originals are available but
> then one more
> level above this,,,,,
>
> I think it was that you had to be a graduate student from this or another
> college, in photography, with a letter written by his/her
> department chair.
> So the requirements are real tough.  It's not like Joe Smith can
> walk right
> up and ask to be entrusted with the master neg.  I think you also work in
> THEIR darkroom, so the neg does not walk off.... ( hey buddy, wanna buy a
> pictuire by Ansel Adams?  50 bucks cash..........   Can you imagine the
> turmoil? )
>
> Having said this, I have never heard of anyone actually stating they had
> printed from the maestro's negs and had a print from their
> session..... so I
> am not so sure you get to actually keep the prints or that this is common.
>
> ANother angle on this is the National Archives where the US Government
> stores their prints.  Here you have access to the actual prints that Ansel
> made, maybe the negs too, under the FOI act.  Now where this place is I
> don;t know.
>
> Frank
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