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 ...

When George Tames, a staff photographer for The New York Times, spotted President John F. Kennedy leaning on a table, head bowed, less than a month into his presidency, he knew what to do. He had ...

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 ...

Reader Ashley Williamson (who really should consider licensing his or her name to Harlequin Romance, LLC.) is dismayed by the limitations of iPhoto’s contact sheet capabilities. Specifically: I am a ...

The photographer's 'decisive moment', as Henri Cartier-Bresson tagged it, often comes in the dark room as much as in the initial flurry of action or on the surreptitious stake out. It is the mark of ...