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\n\tThe Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York\u2019s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer\u2019s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe artwork, which still appears on Danziger\u2019s website, does not contain a title but is headlined A.I. GENERATED, From the prompt: Make a realistic color version of Ansel Adams\u2019 iconic \u201cMoonrise Over Hernandez\u201d.<\/em> It is listed as printed by master printer Esteban Mauchi. Danziger offered the piece in its booth at the fair\u2014which ran from April 22 to April 26\u2014alongside work by Seydou Ke\u00efta, Hoda Afshar, and Matthew Porter, among others.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the statement, the trust said it \u201cdid not authorize, endorse, consent to, or acquiesce\u201d to the work being exhibited or offered for sale and claimed that the piece \u201cexploited Ansel\u2019s name, reputation, and his most iconic image, while failing to identify any human artist responsible for its creation.\u201d The trust said further that it was not notified by the gallery prior to its appearance and that, once it was alerted, it reached out to Danziger to have the work removed, which the gallery appears not to have done.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cAnsel was an innovator who expanded the expressive and technical possibilities of his medium. He was remarkably prescient about\u2014and excited by\u2014the potential of computers to transform photography. The Trust\u2019s concerns are not about AI or creative experimentation in the abstract. This is fundamentally about artists\u2019 rights and moral rights\u2014and respect for human dignity,\u201d the trust said, in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n \n\tDanziger, which was founded in 1989, has yet to speak publicly on the fracas, and did not return a request for comment from ARTnews<\/em> at press time.<\/p>\n \n\tSeveral prominent figures in photography responded in the comments of the Trust\u2019s post to voice their displeasure with the situation. Longtime White House photographer Pete Souza wrote that Danziger\u2019s decision to offer the image was \u201cmorally wrong\u201d and \u201cendangers the rights of all photographers.\u201d Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly wrote that he was a friend of Adams and posited that the photographer \u201cwould have hated this rip-off.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time the trust has gotten into a dust-up over AI-generated images trading on Adams\u2019s name. In 2024, the trust publicly denounced Adobe for including AI-generated images in its stock catalogue that referenced \u201cAnsel Adams-Style Photography.\u201d Adobe\u2019s official terms of use at the time banned users from uploading AI-generated images \u201ccreated using prompts containing other artist names, or created using prompts otherwise intended to copy another artist.\u201d After the trust took its dispute public, Adobe said it removed the content.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/ansel-adams-trust-danziger-gallery-ai-artwork-aipad-1234787113\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AI-Artwork_Danziger.jpeg?w=1024″] The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust released a statement on Saturday slamming the recent decision by New York\u2019s Danziger Gallery to offer an AI-generated artwork referencing the famed photographer\u2019s work at the 2026 edition of the AIPAD Photography Show in April. The artwork, which still appears on Danziger\u2019s website, does not contain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1952870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1952870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1952870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1952870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1952870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}