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Magnum Contact Sheets

Magnum Contact Sheets

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Given that each photo is accompanied by a narrative about how it came about, in some cases I would have preferred to see other, and in my opinion better, photos by the same photographers. 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.

Today even film shooters rarely if ever get to the contact sheet stage, preferring to simply scan their selects. We find out what drew the photographer to the scene, the equipment they used, the challenges and uncertainties they faced. Thus, contact sheets can provide a “sense of walking alongside the photographer and seeing through their eyes”, a “uniquely intimate glimpse into their working process” (p9).This landmark book, published just as the shift to digital photography threatens to render the contact sheet obsolete, celebrates the sheet as artifact, as personal and historic record, as invaluable editing tool, and as a fascinating way of accompanying great photographers as they work towards, and capture, the most enduring images of our time. A good review of an important work, contact sheets could give a very good idea of the decision making process of a photographer in terms of rhythm and framing and how the selected image may look extraordinary when compared to the raw contact after manipulations in the darkroom.

Will scholars of the future be able to pore through outdated digital files as they do through prints, contact sheets and paper files, and how will that fundamentally different experience of the archive shape the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?His form is mirrored by his shadow on the ground – and also mirrored, elsewhere in the book, in Susan Meiselas’ portrait of Lena, from her Carnival Strippers series (again, link has some nudity). The painters – there are several – clamber up and down the girders, curve their bodies into improbable angles, stand on tiptoe like ballet dancers as they reach up to paint overhead.

i saw an exhibition of these contact sheets at FOAM in Amsterdam and I think it's an excellent and interesting way into how other people see things, how we edit in the moment and later.Like reading someone’s diary or looking in their closet, the contact sheet is not meant for public consumption.

No longer an active working tool for most photographers, the contact sheet is relegated to the archive, of interest as a historic document.I would have selected the first one myself, but the photographer is right, I'd never considered that the moment of something about to happen is more powerful than the event taking place. I have been exploring this book regularly over the past month and find that the biographical details and illuminating notes on the individual photographers work featured to be consistently rewarding.



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