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Magnum Contact Sheets

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I may not be watching the photographer actually taking the photographs but, where a photograph can lie, I would argue that a contact sheet does not. I'm still not certain, though, whether it's an argument in favour of motor drives and taking more frames, or the opposite.

He took several pictures of me down, then he and a black guy took me to a nearby square … I have often thought about that photographer’s reflex and asked myself what I would have done. I also enjoy working on collaborative projects, alternative processes, and developing and printing in my makeshift home darkroom. Kirsten Lubben sets the context and relevance of Photographers Contact sheets in an insightful and very well written introduction. No matter what level of photographer you are, your age or your genre of photography, I would urge you to get this book .But just in case, Magnum Photos, founded in Paris in 1947, is one of the world’s most famous photo agencies.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I’m going to jump forward to 1964 and an entry by David Hurn in which he was photographing the Beatles. Each entry also contains a short note written by the photographer (or in case of photographers who are deceased, by an expert) about the photograph. During Covid lockdown I have been scanning my old negatives dating from the mid 1960's and at that time I filed negatives along with a contact sheet to aid future printing. Will scholars of the future be able to pore through outdated digital files as they do through prints, contact sheets and paper files, and how will that fundamentally different experience of the archive shape the histories that are written of the current period of photographic production?

The negatives are printed not by enlargement, but by placing them directly on – in contact with – the paper.

Further insight into each contact sheet is provided by texts written by the photographers themselves or by experts chosen by members’ estates. Despite the fact it's full of beautiful big photos on quality paper (150gsm matt art) many of which you will have seen before if you're serious about photography, I am a little disappointed with the selection of some of them.If the photographer is self-critical, he can attempt to analyze the reasons for the gap between expectation and actuality … Ruthless examination of the contact sheet, whether one’s own or another’s, is one of the best teaching methods.

Again great review Holy and Sroyon , thanks for starting my morning with this thought provoking review. As a side note, what has surprised me is how well these old negs have scanned, some (but obviously not all) look like they could have been taken yesterday - the glory of film! This book is on my list of 13 - one of 13 books I'd take with me to keep if I had to sell my entire collection.Little did I realise at the time that they would also be useful for scanning old negs onto a computer! We hope you enjoyed this review; if you’re interested in reading about photography, you’re welcome to join our Facebook group, Photography Books and Theory. Depending on the book, I will usually put markers in, perhaps in pencil or, in the case of glossy pages like this, little post-it markers.

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