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From the D-Day landings and Tiananmen Square to Salvador Dalí’s flying-cat hijinks, contact sheets reveal the hidden secrets of unforgettable images Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-founder of the famed ...

In the days before digital a contact sheet was one of the most important working documents for a photographer. The multi-image sheets get their name from the way in which they’re created: The ...

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

A landmark new book, Magnum Contact Sheets presents an unparalleled wealth of unpublished material, revealing the story behind many iconic and historical images of modern times taken by the world’s ...

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 ...

The Magnum agency, set up by photojournalists Robert Capa, David Seymour, Henri Cartier-Bresson and George Rodger in 1947, was a product of the jittery postwar era and of an existentialist philosophy ...

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, ...

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 ...

The contact sheet, which offers that thrilling first look at the contents of a roll of film, has been compared to the artist's sketchbook. In this collection of more than 100 of them from the archives ...