re: #22 William Lewis

From Downstairs where I totally CL’d (praise to her memory) it:

There is a huge difference between editing and destroying. For example, the contact sheet from Diane Arbus “Boy with a toy grenade” shows all the alternate takes that were rejected for the one that became the famous print:

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Should the rest of the negatives had a hole punched in them? That’s what I think is the real sin here.

Yeah, I’ve heard professional and semi-professional photographers say that the ratio is like 1:15 to useful shots to total shots.