Contact Sheets
When I began taking photographs back in 1968 there was only film photography. In order to see your images, you made a contact sheet. You basically cut your roll of 35mm film into strips and placed them on top of a sheet of photographic paper in a frame with glass on top to press the negatives flat on the photo paper. This was placed under the enlarger.
With a magnifier you looked at the contact sheet to see which images you wanted to print in your darkroom. I learned early on this was my photo history and every once in a while you would look through your contact sheets and you might discover an image you missed.
When I was recently looking at one of my contact sheets I discovered a street photography photo that I missed. The photograph titled Don’t Be Frightened was frame #20 and the other photograph I had printed was titled “Woman With Stretching Dog At #14. This photo was frame #13. It was just a few frames before.
You can see an example of a contact sheet below.
