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Ansel Adams’ View Camera to Be Auctioned Off July 9th 2014

Chris Gampat
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06/28/2014
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Last Updated on 06/28/2014 by Chris Gampat

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The camera of Ansel Adams–the man that single handedly changed photography with his zone metering system theories and practices–will have his famous view camera auctioned off next month on July 9th. Specifically, we’re talking about his Arca Swiss 4×5 view camera that he used from 1964 to 1968. The camera will be auctioned off by the Revival Auction company along with loads of old Leica gear.

The camera is expected to go a high as $300,000 but we all know that it may end up being much higher than that. According to the listing, it’s in excellent condition still.

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Image courtesy of Revival Auctions

Later on in Adams’ life, he gave the camera to Liliane DeCock, his full-time photographic assistant. She passed away in 2013, and her son took over the ownership of the camera. He states that the lens works, the bellows doesn’t let any light in, and the shutter still totally works. Additionally, no CLA has been done to the camera since.

Beyond this though, this may be the first time one of his cameras has been auctioned off.

Expect this bidding to be very tense.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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