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 ...

Bruno Barbey’s shot of protesters clashing with cops in Paris in 1968; David Seymour’s photograph of a young Sophia Loren posing on her apartment balcony in 1955; David Hurn’s shots of the Beatles at ...

I miss contact sheets. I miss those grids of small photos that show you exactly what’s on a roll of developed film. I miss them so much that now, when I take digital pictures, I don’t delete any: I ...

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 ...

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, ...

Photography editor Crist (Zoe Strauss's America) presents images from 44 photographers along with the original, rarely-seen contact sheets from which they originated. Crist makes an engaging case for ...

Andy Warhol, Detail from Contact Sheet [Photo shoot with Andy Warhol with shadow], 1986. Featured in the exhibition “Contact Warhol: Photography Without End,” on view at Stanford University’s Cantor ...

Reader Ashley Williamson (who really should consider licensing his or her name to Harlequin Romance, LLC.) is dismayed by the limitations of iPhoto’s contact sheet capabilities. Specifically: I am a ...

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 ...