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A dealer with a troubled past and an unknown photographer complicate claims of a found Ansel Adams trove.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/arts/design/14photos.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
And now, in the latest complication, 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 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.