Like Instagram influencers who only post seemingly effortless picture-perfect shots, mid-20th century photographers rarely exposed their blooper reels, also known as contact sheets. Contact sheets ...

In the bygone age of analog photography, contact sheets, or proofs, were like a reporter’s notebooks or a poet’s first drafts. Direct prints of exposed negative films that had been cut into strips and ...

A landmark new book, Magnum Contact Sheets presents an unparalleled wealth of unpublished material, revealing the story behind many iconic and historical images of modern times taken by the world’s ...

In New York three museums have brought the contact sheet, once the photographer's secret rough draft, out of the closet. Maybe it's a case of longing for the obsolete, a hunger for something analogue ...

The photographer's 'decisive moment', as Henri Cartier-Bresson tagged it, often comes in the dark room as much as in the initial flurry of action or on the surreptitious stake out. It is the mark of ...

From the birth of the 35mm camera until the advent of digital photography, the contact sheet has been an inextricable, ubiquitous and essential part of the photographic process. Magnum Contact Sheets, ...

Director's foreword / William M. Griswold -- Acknowledgments -- Preface / Fred Bidwell -- Parting the curtain / Peter Galassi -- Plates -- Hunting -- Choosing ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Great works of art always look distinctive, complete and inevitable. Nothing needs to be added or subtracted. Everything contributes to an authoritative, deeply satisfying whole. So ...