Well I'm back, having survived my first visit to Austin's rightly legendary South by Southwest. The last five days were a whirl of film, food, music, beer, and (as it happens) one giant party in an abandoned power plant. Seriously. So while the memories are still as fresh as the barbecue stains on my clothes, I thought I'd do a little reminiscing of the fest that was. I was lucky ......

The legal dispute between the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust and Rick Norsigian, the man who bought glass-plate negatives at a garage sale in Fresno 10 years ago and attempted to prove that they were the work of famed photographer Ansel Adams, has now been resolved out of court. Details about the settlement are confidential, according to a joint statement received today, but no money appears to have exchanged hands. ......

The legal dispute between a California man who says a box of glass-plate negatives he bought at a garage sale are the work of Ansel Adams and the famed photographer’s trust has entered a new phase. On Thursday, the man, Rick Norsigian and PRS Media Partners filed a countersuit against the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust in federal court in San Francisco. The trust, which disputes that the images are ......

This afternoon, the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust announced its first legal manuever in the ongoing battle of the Norsigian Prints. They have filed a civil suit in federal court in San Francisco against PRS Media Partners (that'd be attorney Arnold Peter) and Rick Norsigian (finder of the disputed negatives.)  Norsigian, a Fresno man who bought the box of negatives at a yard sale 10 years ago, and Peter announced in ......