Task
Create and publish a contact sheet (evidence of a photo-shoot)
Contact sheets were an incredibly important tool and an inevitable part of the photographic process until digital photography rendered them obsolete. As Lubben notes, they constitute “a record of one’s shooting, a tool for editing, and an index to an archive of negatives.” Indeed, she continues, the contact sheet “embodies much of the appeal of photography itself: the sense of time unfolding, a durable trace of movement through space, an apparent authentication of photography’s claim to transparent representation of reality.”
Contact sheets also represent the economy of the roll of 36 frames, as opposed to the limitless numbers of shots that digital photography affords today. As such, they provide the physical marker of an era when each frame had a value, and was therefore more precious.
Then develop and publish a blog post that tackles the following…
- Describe and explain what a CONTACT SHEET is…include examples like the ones provided below
- Then Create a gallery / grid of images from a recent photo-shoot and upload as a contact sheet to a blog post
- Answer : Why are contact sheets useful / essential ?
- Try annotating / colour coding / cropping / arranging your contact sheet to show the start of a selection process
- Look at the examples below which include work by William Klein and. This key photographer was known to include contact sheets as part of his final images as well as experiments.
- Remember…you can Add your images to a Powerpoint, then convert to a JPEG and upload to the blog using JPEG File Interchange Format or try creating them as screen shots.
- You can make a contact sheet by using the Snipping Tool (Shift + Windows+ S) and copying a gallery of images from an image folder
- Or create a Contact Sheet in Adobe Photoshop
