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 ...

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 ...

Before digital photography took over, contact sheets revealed the options for picking the perfect picture. An exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Art called “PROOF: Photography in the Era of the ...

A landmark new book, Magnum Contact Sheets presents an unparalleled wealth of unpublished material, revealing the story behind many iconic and historical images of modern times taken by the world’s ...

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

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 ...