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This March 14, 2014 photo shows a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Toward the end of his life, photographer Ansel Adams pored over thousands of negatives he'd carefully kept since his teens and set aside 70 that he considered his best works of art. He offered to sell sets of 25, with strings attached: Adams would select 10 and let buyers choose the other 15; the images printed by Adams himself could never be resold, only left to a museum. The few dozen who made the cut included the late Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, whose collection was given to the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the centerpiece of "In Focus: Ansel Adams." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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This March 14, 2014 photo shows a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Toward the end of his life, photographer Ansel Adams pored over thousands of negatives he'd carefully kept since his teens and set aside 70 that he considered his best works of art. He offered to sell sets of 25, with strings attached: Adams would select 10 and let buyers choose the other 15; the images printed by Adams himself could never be resold, only left to a museum. The few dozen who made the cut included the late Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, whose collection was given to the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the centerpiece of "In Focus: Ansel Adams." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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This March 14, 2014 photo shows Karen Hellman, Assistant Curator Department of Photographs examining a photo exhibit entitled, "In Focus: Ansel Adams" at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Toward the end of his life, photographer Ansel Adams pored over thousands of negatives he'd carefully kept since his teens and set aside 70 that he considered his best works of art. He offered to sell sets of 25 _ with strings attached: Adams would select 10 and let buyers choose the other 15; the images printed by Adams himself could never be resold, only left to a museum. The few dozen who made the cut included the late Leonard and Marjorie Vernon, whose collection was given to the J. Paul Getty Museum and is the centerpiece of "In Focus: Ansel Adams." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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FILE - In this Jully 27, 2010 file photo, Rick Norsigian holds up a photograph made from a glass negative shot by the late photographer Ansel Adams during a news conference in Beverly Hills, Calif. A group representing Ansel Adams sued Norsigian Monday, Aug. 23, 2010, for selling prints and posters under the name of the famed nature photographer, offering up the latest salvo in a dispute over glass negatives bought at a garage sale and purported to be Adams' lost work. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, file)

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In this Dec. 2,1980, file photo showing the late photographer Ansel Adams posing in front of his photograph of one the views of Yosemite National Park titled "Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, 1927," in his home in Carmel Highlands, Calif. A lawyer says a trove of old glass negatives found in Fresno have been authenticated as the work of iconic photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. The negatives were bought 10 years ago at a garage sale in Fresno for $45. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma,File)

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Rick Norsigian holds up a photograph made from a glass negative shot by the late photographer Ansel Adams during a press conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday July 27,2010. A lawyer says the trove of old glass negatives found in a garage sale for $45 by Mr. Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, Calif., has been authenticated as the work of photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Photographs displayed during a press conference, made from glass plate negatives shot by the late photographer Ansel Adams are seen in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, July 27,2010. A lawyer says a trove of old glass negatives found in a garage sale for $45 by Rick Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, Calif., has been authenticated as the work of photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Rick Norsigian holds up a glass negative shot by the late photographer Ansel Adams during a press conference in Beverly Hills, on Tuesday July 27,2010. A lawyer says a trove of old glass negatives found in a garage sale for $45 by Mr. Norsigian, a painter from Fresno, Calif., has been authenticated as the work of photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Rick Norsigian holds up a photograph made from a glass negative shot by the late photographer Ansel Adams during a news conference in Beverly Hills, on Tuesday, July 27,2010. A lawyer says the trove of old glass negatives found in a garage sale for 45 dollars by Norsigian a painter from Fresno, Calif. has been authenticated as the work of photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Rick Norsigian holds up a photograph made from a glass negative shot by photographer Ansel Adams during a news conference in Beverly Hills on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Dec. 2,1980 file photo showing late photographer, Ansel Adams posing in front of his photograph of one the views of Yosemite National Park titled "Monolith: The Face of Half Dome, 1927," in his home in Carmel Highlands, Calif. A lawyer says a trove of old glass negatives found in Fresno have been authenticated as the work of iconic photographer Ansel Adams and are worth at least $200 million. The negatives were bought 10 years ago at a garage sale in Fresno for $45. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma,File)