Karina Longworth’s new book, Hollywood Frame By Frame, explores the lost art of the contact sheet, the prints on-set movie photographers used in more analog times. The public images of celebrities are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A contact sheet, or proof that displays images as an array of thumbnails, can help you see a collection of PDFs at a glance. This is useful if you want to examine the thumbnails quickly to select the ...

Taiwan and Myanmar, August 2010. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...