They All got developped after his death. John Szarkowski tells about how tedius it was to look through 300.000 photographs to try and find some good ones, of which, according to Szarkowski, there were surprisingly few. At the end of his life, winogrand seems to have taken pictures obsessively for the sake of taking pictures, what he was taken pictures of seems to have mattered little (Szarkowski tells about how frustrating it was to look at contact sheet after contact sheet, of seemingly random photographs).
Rather than thinking of Winogrand using the "spray and pray" method, I think he was just out there working hard. Maybe it was obsessive to work that hard, and there may have been irrational psychological motivations, but that's not so unusual for people who are very dedicated to what they do.
Dead Link Removed...he left thousands of rolls undeveloped and that he wore sprocket holes into the pressure plate of a Leica, but for what purpose?
Has there been a biography yet?
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