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A lot to learn from contact sheets. Let's take a look at Magnum Contact Sheets. You can buy the paperback copy here: amzn.to/4ghtd3L
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[@jamesmcnelis9792]

Love this! ‘Contact High’ is another favorite

[@AREKU]

This is one of my favorite photo books, especially just to flip through in search for inspiration. Happy that you wanted share it with your viewers!

[@mattdayphoto]

@@AREKU it had been too long since I flipped through it!

[@Tadeas_Plachy]

One of my favorite photo books. I always use it as teaching tool with aspiring film photographers to show that in order to get "the shot" they need to shoot more frames than one. Film is meant to be expended on the scene.

[@williamlasl]

Very true. But the myth of digital being “spray and pray” while film makes you “get it right on the first shot” seems to persist on the internet. It’s almost ubiquitous whenever people get to arguing about film vs digital.

[@ccoppola82]

I have a copy of this from a few years back. Different cover. Fantastic book. Shows the “sketches” of amazing photos

[@mattdayphoto]

@@ccoppola82 that’s a great way to put it!

[@cadebrian]

I've known about this book for years but never ordered it, until now. Ordered it as soon as the video started.

[@matthewb21]

Have it, love it, highly recommended as a way to look into how all the greats from Magnum worked a scene to get what they presented. By the way, have a look at a work of Ragnar Axelsson. I just got his book: Arctic Heroes and it's fantastic!

[@hossmacian]

Don't know if you had the chance to see it, but a couple of years ago the Cleveland Museum of Art had a show called Proof. It was amazing for all of the points that you bring up about the work. Went twice and bought the book.

[@mattdayphoto]

@@hossmacian oh wow, I didn’t know about that but it sounds incredible!

[@warren4261]

This is a fantastic book .. thanks for sharing Matt.

[@mattdayphoto]

@@warren4261 thanks for watching!

[@RetroPhotoPro]

The hardcover has two options. So if you are looking for a hardcover you should know. It makes a difference In the price and the book dealers don’t always know either. The bigger one is the original. The smaller one (which is still large) is a reprint and it’s great but sometimes you will see it price for the original’s price. Then there is the paperback

[@ezpoppy55]

Another book along the same lines was put out many years ago by Lustrum Press called “Contact:Theory.” Like the one you showed, there’s the final choice image. Next to it is the contact sheet showing the process of shooting. And there’s also text where the photographer talks about that process. As I recall, more than one photographer mentioned being uncomfortable with delving into the “sausage making” of photographing. That showing their entire process and the mistakes exposed them in a way that made them feel vulnerable. Another book of interest would be “Walker Evans At Work,” which covers similar ground with the famous photographer of the seminal book, American Photographs. Shooting film back in the day (I’ve been photographing for 50+ years), my contact sheets are an integral part of the process. Although not absolutely necessary (I’m very good at “reading” negatives), the ability to annotate those contact sheets, and refer back to them later (days, months, years, decades) is so useful and instructive. Great video, Matt, and a terrific topic!

[@SlavaVeres]

😍 T H E B O O O O K review!!! 👍 really enjoyed it! Thank you Matt! Looking at legendary contacts is always very precious insight into the thought process. Also looking at contacts makes me think that often I take waaay less shots before realizing that I “got the shot”. But it is easier because I’m looking at the digital screen of my GFX50R and I can instantly see the result

[@mattdayphoto]

@@SlavaVeres haha, I was hoping you would enjoy this one!

[@JPWineberg]

I’m wondering if The Darkroom would print a contact sheet and upload it with my images? I’m no longer printing my images but it would be cool to store the negatives with the contact sheet going forward! Great video! I need to add this book to my collection!

[@williamlasl]

Nice Film Club does digital contact sheets with every roll.

[@gameplayone]

With film and development prices these days contact sheets are only a glimpse to the past, almost untouchable by film photographers of today. I dunno if I have more than 3 shots of the same subject ever.