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In an unusually public conflagration between an artist’s estate and a tech giant, the Ansel Adams Trust hit back at Adobe for selling AI-generated images using the famed photographer’s name. Adams, a member of the famed Group f/64, is best known for his images of the American West, whose vast forests and mountains he photographed in sleek black and white. On its stock photography website Adobe Stock, the company was selling pictures produced using generative AI that recalled Adams’s work, albeit with noticeable differences. In one picture that has since been deleted from Adobe Stock, a cloud rolls into...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - It's an antique collector's dream: buying an old box at a garage sale and discovering it contains famous lost works worth a fortune. That's what Rick Norsigian said happened to him. Ten years ago, the Fresno painter stumbled upon a trove of 65 old glass negatives that he says have been authenticated as the work of famed nature photographer Ansel Adams, possibly worth $200 million. "This is absolutely beyond what I thought," the 64-year-old said at a press conference held at a Beverly Hills art gallery on Tuesday. "I'm very lucky." Norsigian's lawyer Arnold Peter said...

os Angeles, California (CNN) -- Rick Norsigian's hobby of picking through piles of unwanted items at garage sales in search of antiques has paid off for the Fresno, California, painter. Two small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser. Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates. "It truly...

Ric Burns has created a scintillating TV portrait of legendary photographer Ansel Adams, capturing his essence as a splendid chronicler of the American West and as a crusading environmentalist. Burns' 90-minute portrait of the artist, which airs Sunday at 9 p.m. as part of PBS's "American Experience" history series, also depicts, with some subtle shading of light and dark, Adams' eccentric personal qualities. Adams, from odd and gifted prodigy to grizzled elder statesman for the environmental movement, comes across in Burns' biography as a mostly lovable but tormented character who overcomes geekhood to achieve greatness. Burns' homage marks the centennial...