What about Weegee???
What about Weegee???
Insane? Can't we settle for eccentric? A friend of mine is just the ticket. He's been a photographer for about fifty years and all his personal work is 35mm, contact printed. I believe there is a wonderful show in his work.
As an aside, grain don't mean nothing in 35mm contacts. He's a push-film kinda guy. Great stuff.
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Eccentric is well behaved or motivated insane in my book.
Tichy
Edward S Curtis
All of us here are eccentric by our usage of LF.
Some may be nuts, not all.
I like all the nominations of the Insane to this thread. I looked each up.
Many I was unfamiliar with.
Mortenson was unliked, def excentric but not insane.
This woman qualifies. Read her sad words. Look at the images.
https://www.lensculture.com/articles...rom-a-madhouse
Maybe Francesca Woodman too.
I would guess Alvin Langdon Coburn was a little more then eccentric too.
Man Ray was pushing the edges most times.
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...l=1#post878270
This all cuts very close to me. Both my wives were mentally ill, which I failed to notice until I married them. I was warned. Fool in love.
Both artists. Both lovely and loving some of the time. Rage at other times. Both deceased. I miss them both.
God Bless us all.
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