[a fool in paradise]

$3,000,000 a negative?

Even at $2,000 a print from a negative, do they really expect to sell 1,500 inferior prints by some technician (not the artist) long after his death?

For 65 different images?

The press sure loves hyperbole.

[mainsail that]

“Even at $2,000 a print from a negative, do they really expect to sell 1,500 inferior prints by some technician (not the artist) long after his death?”

They sell for tens of $$ at art.com and the likes http://www.art.com/gallery/id—a71/ansel-adams.htm . It all adds up as years go by

[Daffynition]

As my father used to say, “That’s what makes horse races.”