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With prints accumulated over 45 years, I'm fortunate in having a large loft.
They do get culled occasionally, but in general I'm leaving that job to a house clearance company a few more years down the road...
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Roy. Can I look at them during the tea break when we're both stoking? Mike |
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Could you define the differences or detect any trends comparing what you thought might sell and what did? Tom |
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Ones I like get put 'somewhere safe' so I can have the delight of finding them at random intervals when I decide to have a clearout.
Its astonishing how you remember EXACTLY when you took these photos and the fun/frustration of printing each one when you find it. |
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Except for those made in the 1960s and 70s for some reason, which seem particularly prone to memory fogging...
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I don't do anything with the photographs I make. They are not a means to an end but rather the end in itself.
Sometimes other people look at them, occasionally in a gallery or other exhibition space, and sometimes people buy them. But if none of these things happened I would make them just the same. Every photograph, Kodachrome for colour, gelatin-silver for black and white is fully annotated. Each one bears a stamp, a copyright mark, a title, a date, and a signature. All the data about the photograph; camera, film, dev, paper, toning, and exposure is written on it. The historic context; who, what, where, when, and why is also written on it. Any artistic considerations, belly-aches, and rants are written there too. If I make multiple versions of a photograph I write out the story in full every time. I hope my descendants find the material interesting enough to keep. Even if the archive falls into the hands of complete strangers I want to give them reasons to value the stuff. After all it's my only ransom against eternity.
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