Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 08:47 AM 17/12/97 -0500, you wrote: >You know, I hate to bring this up but I saw a program on PBS years ago that >featured several photographers. One of them was Winogrand. The camera >followed him on the street and I swear he shot at least a couple of frames >from chest or shoulder level. Perhaps his "technique" accounts for the large number of lousy photos he takes. Seriously. You can look through hundreds of his contact sheets and not find anything at all worthwhile. He was further affected when he began using a motorized camera. He would fire away aimlessly at anything without really thinking about what the final image would be like. There are hundreds of rolls of photos with nothing on them at all. His "technique", if you could call it that, seems to mock anything that has any technique or sense of artistic composition. Some are not impressed at all ... - -GH