Watching a documentary: Smash his camera and noticed something.

[rpavich]

I started to watch a pretty interesting documentary about a paparazzi; Ron Galella, and noticed that when he went to his "archives" and reached for examples of his work, or when showing his work to others, it was all prints. He had millions of negatives and hundreds of thousands of prints of all sizes. Boxes and boxes and boxes of prints.

I just thought it was interesting and fun to watch how folks USED to share their work; by handing a print to someone else to take ahold of and look at rather than firing up an ipad or something.

I was born in '60 and didn't get interested in photography until well after the digital age so shooting film is all new to me. My only exposure was the typical "shoebox full of prints" that my parents had when I was growing up; we used disposable cameras exclusively.

And PS: it's a pretty interesting documentary too.

 

[Michael W]

Yeah, I thought it was a good doc about an interesting guy and also noticed how impressive his archive was.

 

[wiltw]

Yes, one day after most of the digital data is not retrievable because hardware has evolved and the old digital data storage devices cannot be hooked up to current computers, boxes of photos will be one of the few ways of retrieving visual information about the early 21st century.

In 40-50 years, so many Millenials will discover they have few images of their own kids as small children because of data non-retrievability.

 

[rpavich]

Yes, one day after most of the digital data is not retrievable because hardware has evolved and the old digital data storage devices cannot be hooked up to current computers, boxes of photos will be one of the few ways of retrieving visual information about the early 21st century.

In 40-50 years, so many Millenials will discover they have few images of their own kids as small children because of data non-retrievability.

Yah..."c'mon kids...gather around the hard drive so we can look at data files of you!"

 

[Peter Madsen]

Do you have a link to the documentary? Or do you know where i can see it?

 

[rpavich]

Do you have a link to the documentary? Or do you know where i can see it?

Here's one place.

http://www.amazon.com/Smash-His-Camera-Leon-Gast/dp/B0047SF4B6

 

[gone]

I'm rebooting this old thread because the documentary "Smash His Camera" is on youtube for free now. It's also free on Pluto TV, and you don't have to join or anything to watch it. Ron Galella certainly didn't mind doing whatever it took to get the photo.

I wasn't able to link the youtube video here, but go to youtube and search "Smash His Camera" and it's there in it's entirety.

 

[ic-racer]

I just thought it was interesting and fun to watch how folks USED to share their work; by handing a print to someone else to take ahold of and look at

If one does not work in digital, it is the only way to see a print.

 

[AgX]

The link to the Youtube video:

BBC One HD Smash His Camera (2010)

Widely considered to be the world's first paparazzi photographer, the controversial American photojournalist Ron Galella was sued by Jackie Kennedy and had h...

bit.ly

 

[CMoore]

Shooting famous people is not my cup of tea, but i certainly have seen some of this guys VERY Well Known Frames.
He seems to have been quite successful for several years.
Every photographer would love to have his rewarding career

 

[dxqcanada]

Hmm, I remember taking out the slide projector, pullng the screen open ... and sharing images.

 

[Terrence Brennan]

Good video!