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Elliot Erwitt, contact sheet for “Chihuahua,” New York City (1946) (© Elliot Erwitt / Magnum Photos)

Os recomiendo seguir los interesantes contenidos Hyperallergic, de donde hemos rescatado este intersante artículo por Carey Dunne. Aunque vosotros estéis más bien habituados a lidiar con vuestros archivos de imágenes en Lightromm, algunos todavía recordamos nuestras hojas de contactos en papel para seleccionar lo que habíamos registrado en nuestros carretes, manejando series fotográficas de 24 o 36 tomas. Hay que saber buscar entre nuestras propias fotos observándolas como un espectador ajeno para observar sus virtudes y reconocer los encuadres más expresivos y afortunados.

See the Contact Sheets from 13 Legendary Photo Shoots

by Carey Dunne on November 23, 2015

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 Abbey Road Studios in 1964; and Thomas Hoepker’s image of Muhammad Ali flexing for the camera in Chicago in 1966: these are a few of the most famous 20th-century photographs taken by members of the legendary photographer cooperative Magnum Photos. Now, as part of its first Magnum Seasonal Benefit, the company has made prints of the original contact sheets from these influential shoots, among others, available to the public.

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Bruno Barbey, contact sheet for student protests in Paris (1968) (© Bruno Barbey/Magnum Photos)

Contact prints by legendary Magnum photographers, including Martin Parr, Eve Arnold, David Hurn, Elliot Erwitt, Bruno Barbey, Burt Glinn, Guy Le Querrec, Herbert List, Thomas Hoepker, David Seymour, and more, are available starting today. Half of the proceeds from orders of the prints will go to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
In the age of Photoshop and rampant retouching, the old cliche “the camera never lies” no longer holds true. It’s stoked a national obsession with original, unedited images from high-profile photo shoots, especially of celebrities. With the printed contact sheet becoming a thing of the past, this collection of archival negatives plays into that obsession, evoking nostalgia for a time when photographs seemed more trustworthy.

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Guy Le Querrec, contact sheet for Paris Jazz Festival (1969) (© Guy Le Querrec / Magnum Photos)

Here, we see the full stories behind iconic images, the less polished shots the photographers chose to leave out. From Burt Glinn’s shots of Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Suddenly Last Summer to Guy Le Querrec’s documentation of the 1969 Paris Jazz Festival, they reveal how these unseen photographers’ dynamic visions shaped their subjects’ legacies. Like reading the unedited, marked-up manuscript of a famous author, these ephemera offer insight into photographers’ creative processes — they remind you just how much work by even the best-known artists never sees the light of day.

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Dennis Stock, contact sheet for James Dean, New York City (1955) (© Dennis Stock / Magnum Photos)

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Martin Parr, contact sheet for The Last Resort (1985) (© Martin Parr / Magnum Photos)

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Eve Arnold, contact sheet depicting Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift practicing a scene during the filming of The Misfits, Nevada, USA (1960) (© Eve Arnold / Magnum Photos)

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David Seymour, contact sheet of photographs of Sophia Loren on her balcony in Italy (1955) (© David Seymour / Magnum Photos)

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David Hurn, contact sheet depicting The Beatles in London’s Abbey Road Studios, where many of their most famous records were made examining the script of the film A Hard Days Night. (1964) (© David Hurn / Magnum Photos)