This article is about a collector claming to have found a collection of lost negatives belonging to Ansel Adams, the famous photographer.
There is some controversy whether the collection is truly Adams' work or not...the article contains quotes from both the owner, who claims they are the real thing, and a representative from the Adams family and the Publishing Rights Trust, both of whom believe they are fakes. I believe the article is a little quote heavy, and I believe the very end is not well done. It's:
"Norsigian is not fazed by naysayers. "Prove me wrong," he said. "This has been such a long journey. I thought I'd never get to the end. It kind of proves a construction worker-painter can be right."
I feel the fragmented structure of this quote makes it a weak quote, as well use of the words "kind of" and the awkward hyphenated "construction worker-painter" make it a weak quote overall, thus especially not a powerful ending. I actually think the quotes this journalist chose to use make the non-believers sound more convincing, and the believer himself sound a bit deluded. I am curious if that is in fact the case, or it was a matter of how this journalist wrote the article and the quotes he used, and if he had made different choices it could have come out completely differentely...or of course I am simply bringing my own bias into it!
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