Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/18
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on 17/2/00 9:27 pm, Mike Johnston at michaeljohnston@ameritech.net wrote:
>>>> BTW, how many rolls of undeveloped film did Winnograd leave behind
> when he died? Wasn't it something like 6,000, or am I completely off
> base?
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> David<<<
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> About 9,000. They were developed under the direction of John Szarkowski
> of MoMA using a grant from Springs Industries.
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> --Mike
Did they dev & con all of them? I seem to remember that they only got part
way through. There's a reference to the mind-numbing process of combing
through the contact sheets in the FIGMENTS monograph, but they guy only went
through a thousand or so, I think. Which leaves... well, just imagine.
The disintegration of Winogrand's photographic style has always fascinated
me. There's a great PhD there for someone. If no-one gets there first, one
day I would like to write a Winogrand biography, and set out to answer the
question of just what happened.
I have my theory, which I've stated before, which is that Winogrand's
photography-as-visual-research project, once cut free of the feedback loop
of actually looking at your pictures, left the road and disappeared into the
desert like a trucker asleep at the wheel.
- --
John Brownlow
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