Rick Womer wrote:
From the New York Times Magazine, March 13 1988:
"Stashed away in bureau drawers and plastic garbage bags in his Los Angeles
home were more than 2,400 rolls of exposed but undeveloped film, as well as
6,500 rolls of developed film that had not been proofed. Contact sheets of an
additional 3,000 rolls of film had been made but showed only a few editing
marks. In other words, during the last six years of his life, spent mainly in
Los Angeles, Winogrand made more than a third of a million black-and-white
exposures and, inexplicably, did not stop to see what he had done."
Pick your number!
Rick
Taking nothing away from the man, but...IMMHO, he had a real problem.
That's obsession in the worst degree. Perhaps other diagnostic labels would fit
better, but he was far from normal.
I'd say he turned into an automaton, merely going thru the mechanical motions of
being a prolific photographer, but not completing the task.
He did a few. Perhaps several proof sheets.
From less than half his exposures he made contact sheets.
How many prints from those?
For him, the end point was anathema. He wanted to search out the subject, pick
all the other elements, but...once the shutter was pressed, his work ~ and his
interest ~ was over.
So it seems!
keith whaley
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