Contact sheets date back to when you took images on film. Now they aren’t used a digital cameras have a SD card in them.

A contact sheet is all the developed negative images laid out onto photographic paper. They aren’t full size, instead they are used to give the photographer an idea on how the images look.

Contact sheets are helpful as they allow the photographer to see all the images, select the best quality images and then develop the images they want without wasting resources.

William Klein

William Klein is a photographer who was born on April 19th 1928. He was born in New York, however during WW2 he was stationed in Germany and later France, where he would later settle after being discharged in 1945.

He sometimes used his contact sheets to tell a story. However he mainly used them like others, to decide which images he wanted to use.

My Own contact sheet