Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I can do what I want with my negatives. If I want to keep them forever, throw them out, burn them, shove them up my a**, that's my business. They are mine, not yours or anyone elses. Was it Brett Weston who destroyed the bulk of his negatives before he died? Good for him! Dan C. At 04:36 PM 07-03-00 -0500, austin@darkroom.com wrote: >>>I've got pretty much every negative I've ever shot in 33.3 years, it's my >>copyright and my body of work. >>Holding on to and archiving ones negatives is the most basic precept in my training. > >I completely agree, with ONE exception. My girl friend (who is now my wife ;-), wasn't 'all that happy' with all the pictures/negatives I had of old 'girl friends' (thousands, mind you...of pictures/negatives, not girl friends...), so out of 'courtesy, and understanding', I 'got rid' of all of them. Other than that, I still have every negative I ever shot since the age of 12...and that's a LOT of negatives! A REAL lot. > >I had a spat on the Hasselblad user's group once. I was told I was 'being stupid'. That would be compliment around this news group ;-) > > > > >