Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>My favorite quote from either Winogrand or Freidlander is: " I photograph things to see what things look like photographed" when asked why he was a photographer.<< Interesting. I never heard that before. But there's something to it. I wonder what those guys would think about digital photography. The gestation period of a digital image is about a second. Compare that to whichever one of the above had 60,000 undeveloped images in his estate. There's something to be said for having to wait to see what a photograph looks like. Imagine if the gestation period for humans was one day instead of nine months. I'm guessing it would take some anticipation caused excitement out of the delivery. But there's also such a thing as waiting too long. I've still got a couple of rolls of BW film that I shot in the 70's but are still undeveloped. They're my own personal time capsules. Dave R