Always wondered about those 300k+ undeveloped photos...

[Carterofmars]

This is a quote from the site Black and White World: [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]

Coffee and Workprints:
A Workshop With Garry Winogrand
Two weeks with a master of street photography
that changed my life[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Mason Resnick[/FONT]


[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Garry Winogrand died of cancer at age 56 in 1984 and left over 2,500 rolls of undeveloped film, 6,500 rolls of processed film, 3,000 rolls of contact sheets that evidently hadn't been looked at--a total of 12,000 rolls, or 432,000 photos Winogrand took but never saw. Some of these images were published posthumously in Figments from The Real World. [/FONT]



My question to the forum is this: What happened to all those rolls of undeveloped film? Where they sold undeveloped?

Does anyone know...

 

[apodeictic]

I got thinking the other day about whether that film should even be developed (if it does even exist). Winogrand was just as obsessive about what made it into a final show or book as he was about shooting. His posthumous book was published with photos that were circled on contact sheets, not necessarily anything he wanted to see the light of day. Although the historical significance of his photography as documentation cannot be understated... I can't help but feel we'd be violating his art in some way should that film be developed.

I guess what I'm trying to get at is a Winogrand photograph is way more than the fact that his finger tripped the shutter release.

 

[Chriscrawfordphoto]

We had a big discussion about this a few weeks ago on here. The Museum of Modern Art got hold of the film and had the undeveloped ones processed and proofed and the museum had exhibition prints made of a bunch of them and some have been published in a book.