Hi, Saturday, January 18, 2003, 3:37:26 PM, you wrote:
> In the trade magazines, and that wonder of infomercials that comes to my > door every other month, I read about photographers who periodically go > through their old negatives, sometimes going back decades in time, to see > what they were doing, and finding images that were overlooked at the time, > for one reason or another, that have turned out to be very fine pictures. Elliott Erwitt told a similar story when I went to a talk he gave about a year ago. One of his now best known pictures was 'rescued' that way. It was taken on a beach in California in California in 1955 and shows a couple about to kiss reflected in the wing mirror of their car. In the background we can see the waves and the sun going down. (pp. 502-3 of his book 'Snaps'). Apparently he overlooked this photo for 25 or more years. Since it was first published he's made an awful lot of money from it. Probably enough to pay for several digital cameras. If I remember correctly quite a few of the pix in 'Snaps' are the result of a long trawl through the shoeboxes at Magnum. --- Bob
