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 ...

Those beautiful magazine portraits of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are usually accepted at face value. But the perfect cover photo is usually the product of much trial and error; it's one of dozens of ...

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 sometimes make a contact sheet for clients after we do a shoot that includes the poster frame of the video and the name of the file (MVI_001.mov) below it. I can print these or pdf them. I do this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Bargh shows you how to make a contact sheet of your black & white negatives.