Re: later looks

[cmiller@berkshire.net (Curt Miller)]

Boy, do I ever second Ted's comments.  While I have not been doing it as
long as hea has (only 35 years in my case), I am still able to retrieve any
of my old negatives.

Last night I was reading one of my Strand monographs and was looking at his
Gaspe pictures.  It prompted me to go through some old negs and proofs I
made in my mother's hometown of Brigus, Newfoundland (yeah Ted, I'm a real
Newfie - no cracks, eh?) many years ago (in MF).  This is an old fishing
village located in one of the most imaginably harsh climates on can imagine.
Anyway, some of these negs have never been printed and are beautiful.  The
scenes in Brigus have changed today, so I'd not be able to recapture these
precious images frozen in time.

SAVE EVERYTHING...and shoot a lot of film!


Curt


Ted wrote (in part):
>I have been printing B&W for a resrospect of my 45 year career and my new book
>for next year, and I'm having a wonderful time in the dark room. I'm making
>16X20's from negatives shot 30 years or more ago that till this day have never
>seen the light nor had I considered printing them 30 years ago..What a
>difference time and experience gives one when re-examining your past eye of the
>day and how you respounded to life and the events of the times.
>
>1/ Never throw any material away you might not be too happy with today, as a
>quarter century down the line, you might find you were a bit of a damn good
>photographer long long ago.  No comment about the recent moments!:)
>
>2/  Store negatives very carefully along with as much information as you can
>that is relevent to loction/ who/ when and where. It makes the photography of
>greater value should an archives wish to purchase a block of the work.