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This article explores the history and significance of photographers' contact sheets, highlighting their role in the creative process and their enduring appeal in the digital age. Examples from NYT archives showcase the insights revealed.
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Arts|The Analog Allure of Photographers’ Contact Sheets By Anika Burgess Aug. 18, 2025 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 observed Kennedy stand this way many times before, tilting forward on his palms to relieve his back pain. But on this occasion, with Kennedy silhouetted against the Oval Office windows, Tames raised his camera and snapped two frames. One ran as part of The Times magazine feature “A Day With John F. Kennedy”; it became Tames’s most famous photo. When Tames next pressed the shutter, for the third frame in the roll, he had moved closer and to the side; Kennedy is in the same pose but here, he is simply looking down, reading some papers. Those three frames appear postage-stamp-size along the bottom of a contact sheet from that assignment, along with something else: the definitive tick of a red grease penc...
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