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 Originally Posted by E. von Hoegh
Sounds more like an emotional issue than photography.
maybe you're right, or maybe he just loved exposing film 
the file cabinet was full ...
ziplock bags full of thousands of rolls of film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl4f-...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zk1n...eature=related
and his leica had so much film through it there was a film image on the pressure plate
http://www.cameraquest.com/LeicaM4G.htm
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This is like the "If a tree falls in a forest..." idea. And so, it's already been pondered and exhausted. If there are latent images hidden away in an artist's draw, is it art? Does it really exist? Do we care? Who are we? Please kill me? We've already reached that philosophical dead end with images that have been processed and printed. Why waste more brain cells?
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Originally Posted by jnanian
I think that Winogrand had an obsession, or even an addiction for taking photos - I would say it was on an emotional level for sure.
I actually think that the idea does have merit - if someone offered you a roll of exposed by not developed film that was taken by a master, would you buy it? I have to admit, it would be tempting. THe hardest part would be making sure that its authentic (just like the bits of the Cross that have been sold all over the world!)
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Originally Posted by blansky
I have the most incredible and magnificent images in my head that I never bothered to take pictures of, never stopped the car, never put down my beer and snapped a picture.
When I croak they should put my head on display and people can walk by and know that those images are in there, but just far too magnificent for the likes of them to see.
The greatest pictures never taken.
You too, eh?
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Originally Posted by hoffy
I think that Winogrand had an obsession, or even an addiction for taking photos - I would say it was on an emotional level for sure.
I actually think that the idea does have merit - if someone offered you a roll of exposed by not developed film that was taken by a master, would you buy it? I have to admit, it would be tempting. THe hardest part would be making sure that its authentic (just like the bits of the Cross that have been sold all over the world!)
If you assembled all the bits of the True Cross in all the churches in the world, Jesus would have had to be 14 feet tall with a 15 foot armspan.
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Originally Posted by TheFlyingCamera
If you assembled all the bits of the True Cross in all the churches in the world, Jesus would have had to be 14 feet tall with a 15 foot armspan.
What about all the bits of His Foreskin? Boggles the mind.....
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Vivian Maier also, like Winogrand, left behind a vast amount of unprocessed (and nearly destroyed) film. It is now being developed and scanned after her death.
This also brings to mind another interesting point. Usually photographers themselves decide what their best or most desirable work is, and print and exhibit it accordingly. If your film is processed after your death, then someone else's view of your best latent work is being showcased to the public. Imagine walking through an exhibition of your photographs, but never having seen most of them before! ... Especially years hence, when most of your memories of taking those particular shots have faded from your mind.
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I do use a digital device in my photographic pursuits when necessary.
When someone rags on me for using film, I use a middle digit, upraised.
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Originally Posted by Terry Christian
Vivian Maier also, like Winogrand, left behind a vast amount of unprocessed (and nearly destroyed) film. It is now being developed and scanned after her death.
This also brings to mind another interesting point. Usually photographers themselves decide what their best or most desirable work is, and print and exhibit it accordingly. If your film is processed after your death, then someone else's view of your best latent work is being showcased to the public. Imagine walking through an exhibition of your photographs, but never having seen most of them before! ... Especially years hence, when most of your memories of taking those particular shots have faded from your mind.
That's a very good point. While I seriously doubt my work will ever get known as something important enough to salvage after my death, it is a little disturbing to think that somebody could exercise some sort of artistic skills on work I haven't done anything to other than expose the film. Provenance is another issue that is not clear; how can the work be clearly identified as made by a certain artist, without a signature or some other evidence that it was touched by them?
"...the heart and mind are the true lens of the camera".
- Yousuf Karsh
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit".
- Aristotle
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Originally Posted by Terry Christian
Vivian Maier also, like Winogrand, left behind a vast amount of unprocessed (and nearly destroyed) film. It is now being developed and scanned after her death.
This also brings to mind another interesting point. Usually photographers themselves decide what their best or most desirable work is, and print and exhibit it accordingly. If your film is processed after your death, then someone else's view of your best latent work is being showcased to the public. Imagine walking through an exhibition of your photographs, but never having seen most of them before! ... Especially years hence, when most of your memories of taking those particular shots have faded from your mind.
A very good point and this is a different twist to its use. I suppose I was thinking in my OP as using undeveloped but exposed film as in the same way a musician may use silence within their music, or perhaps a film maker may run a sequence of black within the story of a film. I think to use this concept effectively in exhibition, it would perhaps need to be placed at the end of a series of displayed (printed images) on a very specific theme with the undeveloped roles/cassettes identified as a continuation of this theme. In that way it would leave the viewer of the displayed prints asking questions about the content of these in relation to any artistic development shown in the final image on display, as I believe someone mentioned an unfinished symphony.
“The contemplation of things as they are, without error or confusion, without substitution or imposture, is in itself a nobler thing than a whole harvest of invention”
Francis Bacon
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