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On the contact sheet.

Books on how photographers and editors read a roll.

Magnum Contact Sheets book cover
01 · Thames & Hudson · 2011

Magnum Contact Sheets.

Edited by Kristen Lubben

Contact sheets from Magnum photographers, marked up by hand, shown next to the frames that were finally printed.

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02 · Cleveland Museum of Art · Yale University Press · 2016

Proof. The contact sheet era.

Barbara Tannenbaum · From the collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz

Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet. A private collection of sheets across the twentieth century, read as working documents rather than finished prints.

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Contact High book cover
03 · Clarkson Potter · 2018

Contact High.

Vikki Tobak

A Visual History of Hip-Hop. The contact sheets behind hip-hop's defining images, with the photographers explaining the frames they picked.

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The Contact Sheet book cover
04 · AMMO Books · 2009

The contact Sheet.

Steve Crist

Working photographers share their own contact sheets and the thinking behind the frames they chose. In English, Spanish, German and French.

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