After nearly 40 years of service, I’m shipping out my Leica M3, a great film camera that’s now old and broken, to a camera repair service, where it will be either used for parts or repaired and sold to a… Read More »Letting go of my Leica M3

Well, I’ve scanned, spotted and otherwise prepped the final three rolls that I shot in 1976 at the Master Workshop with Garry Winogrand, two weeks that helped me define myself as a photographer. It’s been an amazing journey, revisiting photos,… Read More »Revisiting the Winogrand Workshop, Part VI: The last batch…or is it?

This. A gorgeous young lady looking and smiling right at me—a shy 19-year-old learning to interact with the world through the medium of photography. I was seduced, not just by her, but the crazy approach to photography that I was… Read More »Revisiting the Winogrand Workshop, Part V: More good stuff

I didn’t know what it was called until years later, in graduate school, when I was using “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards was my workbook. I learned about how creative people get in the… Read More »Revisiting the Winogrand Workshop part IV: The Day I Discovered “The Zone”

I’m about halfway through the process of scanning and digitizing the negatives I shot 42 years ago during a Master Workshop with Garry Winogrand. I’m finding more gold…and photos that have greater historical significance. The way we dressed, the cars… Read More »Revisiting the Winogrand Workshop part III: More hidden treasures revealed

I’m approximately halfway through the two dozen rolls I shot in 1976 during a 2-week Master Workshop in New York City with Garry Winogrand at the Germain School of Photography. The Germain School, for those who may be unfamiliar, was… Read More »Revisiting the Winogrand Workshop part II: New Discoveries

I’d call this the “before” shots. A roll unceremoniously labeled MW-4 (Master Workshop, roll 4; my numbering system was apparently unrelated to sequence in which the photos were shot), I believe this was the first roll I shot during the… Read More »My first Winogrand Workshop roll…I think

I may be spending a lot of time looking at old negatives, but I’m still actively working on the streets of NYC. Here are a few photos from last week. All photos © 2018 by Mason Resnick

II recently found the original negatives I shot during the two-week Master Workshop with Garry Winogrand that I attended in 1976 and wrote about here and decided to give them another look. Would I find hidden treasures that I missed the… Read More »Revisiting the Winogrand Workshop, Part I

In the dark days of the 1980s and 1990s, it seemed like declaring the death of street photography was a mark of honor for photography critics. Indeed, in an age where Cindy Sherman and friends dominated the fine-art photography world… Read More »In The Midst of Its Internet Resurgence, Has Street Photography Lost Its Meaning?