Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I think a new book of his work was recently published...There are some serious questions about that film and whether it should ever be processed. Some argue that he shot so much he didn't get around to processing it all...I wonder if there weren't entire rolls that he felt weren't worth processing, which he just tossed into boxes because he couldn't quite bring himself to throw them out. That being the case, I would suggest they should just be disposed of without being processed. B. D. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of DanKPhoto@aol.com Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 3:21 PM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup B.D., I understand better from your response, and I guess I really don't have anything much to argue with you, other than to quibble about taking the nanosecond before tripping the shutter. Pehaps that's a time-management issue. As far as Winnogrand's amazing eye, yes! And he shot a lot. I have read he left behind garbage bags full of exposed film which were subsequently developed under a grant (to preserve the images). But I haven't seen anything of this work. I wonder what happened to it? Regards, Dan Kapsner <<Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 12:30:58 -0400 From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> Subject: RE: Subject: RE: [Leica] I See Dead People & PAW Ketchup Message-ID: <MBBBJHIBKCKEAEOKKBPOCELGEHAA.bdcolen@earthlink.net> References: Equally respectfully - I'm not suggesting going into a situation with a shooting "plan" of any kind. I am suggesting taking a nanosecond to ask oneself, "why am I tripping the shutter?" And, further, I am suggesting that a good deal longer be spent going over the resulting negs - or work prints - asking oneself, "will someone looking at this image be able to see in it what I saw in the original situation, or did I have much more information than they have in this single still image?" As to Winnogrand - Winnogrand had to gifts: the first was an absolutely amazing eye, which probably functioned on a subconscious level, allowing him to "see" things which very few mortal see; and he was obviously an astoundingly good editor, able to pour over thousands and thousands of images and pull out the comparative handful of truly outstanding images. B. D.>> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html