Winogrand at Work
Garry Winogrand is the quintessential street photographer, drawn to the action and energy of certain subjects, trusting his instincts on what's in the picture and less on how it's going to look. Here's a short video from 1982 of Winogrand talking about his work.
I always love seeing how photographers of this caliber approach their subjects and their work. And for him, the magic seemed to be more in the act of photography than the end result.
When Winogrand died, two years after this film was made, he had 2,500 rolls of film already shot that he hadn't yet developed. 6,500 rolls developed but not proofed. 3,000 rolls proofed but not looked at. That's a total of a third of a million unedited exposures.
(UPDATE: Here's a really good quality version of that same video, that's available for downloading here.)
28 March 2007 by Melissa Lyttle
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