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Adams Appraiser Has a Past

August 17, 2010 by Marion Maneker

We almost forgot to mention the final piece of evidence to discredit the Norsigian negatives is the Bay Area Citizen‘s report on Friday that the appraiser who claimed the putative Ansel Adams works were worth $200 million is a felon:

court records reveal that Mr. Streets, who set the value for the negatives and is handling the related sales, is a convicted felon with a criminal record for petty theft and fraud in Louisiana and Kentucky. Though he says on his Web site, davidstreetsbeverlyhills.com, that he has 25 years of fine-art appraisal experience, two of Mr. Streets’s former employers say his true talent is in the embellishment of his credentials.

Doris Allen, who owns the Bryant Galleries in New Orleans, says that though Mr. Streets, 45, can be “very charming,” he had said he had no appraisal experience when she hired him at her business in 2000. Now she is amazed to see him occupy an influential role in a national art debate. “How can he get up there and claim that those negatives are worth $200 million?” she said. “That is absurd.”

Tales of Ansel Adams Negatives Grows Hazy (Bay Area Citizen)

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