Garry Winogrand negs.

So you finish exposing your film and you can't think of anything else until you get in your darkroom and develop it right?What's (was) with Winogrand? Does anyone else have the patience to leave exposed film undeveloped for months or years?Maybe it's just me.By the way I really like his stuff and this is why it's so hard to understand.

I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression he liked to wait between the shoot and when he developed the film, so his emotional attachment to the moment when he made the picture was diminished... or better still forgotten. I think he felt when he edited the work months later he would have a more objective view of the pictures.

SuzanneR said:

I could be wrong, but I'm under the impression he liked to wait between the shoot and when he developed the film, so his emotional attachment to the moment when he made the picture was diminished... or better still forgotten. I think he felt when he edited the work months later he would have a more objective view of the pictures.

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I don't recall any specific mention of emotional attachment. My recall of interviews was that he didn't want to remember taking the photo or his preconceptions of what his intentions and ideas were about the composition or content at the time of the exposure.

IIRC his intentional delay between exposure and development was more on the order of 2 years. My recall could be faulty, and that delay could easily have varied (and likely did) over his career.

In any case, the intention was definitely as you state, temporal and mental distance between the acts of taking and of editing/printing so that he could see the image purely on its own merits.

Lee

That is emotional attachment or what is meant by it


I'm thinking this guy was a professional who took 3 rolls of film on the way home from the store
That takes time to develop and those types of photos don't need to be printed nor seen right away
not that any truly do


I develop within 2 weeks normally but I do have negatives from winter 07 -that I like- that I haven't yet printed

For me printing is something mostly to be done later when I cant move and the photos are worthy of that kind of consistent time

Uhh...not that I'm like Winogrand...but I still have film in the fridge that was shot in June and is still awaiting development. I've got hundreds of rolls contact printed but other than that I haven't been able to even get one good work print off each roll -- I just don't have the time to get into the darkroom that often. If I stopped shooting today I would have enough work to keep me busy in the darkroom for the next five years at least. Sometimes life gets in the way of artistic intentions.

It comes natural to me , I'm very active and energetic for a few weeks , so I go out and shoot , shoot , shoot. Then , when I come down from that inspired "high" and feel like I've lost itn , I develop , scan , print and try to figure out what works and what doesn't. And around it goes again...