Few days ago surfing around on photographer’s blogs I found this wonderful contact sheet by Diane Arbus, at the blog of the street photographer Thomas Simon. (Thank you Tom!)
I found it delicious, as I didn’t know it and it’s always wonderful to see contact sheets of photographers.
Child with Toy Hand Grenade in Central Park, New York,1962, by Diane Arbus
A contact sheet can not only tell the story behind the chosen photograph, but also as a master classe for us to understand why the photographer chose the final photograph in a bunch of them. So I couldn’t resist to post here the photograph and the contact sheet that gave birth to it.
contact sheet / Diane Arbus
If you google “contact sheet” you may add the name of your preferred photographers and you’ll find wonderful works there from all the great photographers.
But meanwhile, I leave here one:
Contact Sheet of Hitchcock
Do you know which was the photo selected by Hitchcock here?
and this one by Andy Wahrol?
contact sheet by Andy Warhol
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text by ©Gonzalo Bénard for 2HeadS
Jan, 2013
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Great find, thanks for sharing it!
Reblogged this on Passing Before My Eyes and commented:
Thanks to 2HeadS for this great find. I thought it worth sharing…
Thanks you Gonzalo! Great idea to complete the post with some other very interesting contact sheets I did not knew about until now. Indeed, real master classes.
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I love these. It’s fun to see the shots that didn’t get picked. It’s interesting that it was the first shot that was used. thanks for sharing.
You’re right Peter, I didn’t notice that the chosen one was her very first. Curious as I always tell the same, or happens the same when I do a portrait shooting: the first is usually the best or the chosen one, maybe because it’s the more natural or the one in which I can bring the best of the portrayed one. Cheers for your input.
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