Peter Hujar was born in 1934 in Trenton, New Jersey, and raised in poverty before making his way to New York City as a young man. He went on to become one of the most important photographers of the ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

Back in the good old days of film photography, contact sheets or proof sheets were one of the best ways to view results from black and white or color negative film shoots. Printed on photographic ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Great works of art always look distinctive, complete and inevitable. Nothing needs to be added or subtracted. Everything contributes to an authoritative, deeply satisfying whole. So ...

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A step by step help sheet that explains the steps students need to take in order to print a contact sheet of their film shoot.

Marsha P. Johnson on Christopher Street Pier, Easter, 1976, The Morgan Library & Museum, Peter Hujar Collection, New York, purchased on the Charina Endowment Fund, 2013. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, ...