Haven't checked in in a while- it's been a slow and pleasant summer - still doing studio and will post a series.... but found this while looking for the Avedon Marian Anderson image on the web- it's from the Anderson Archives- the Avedon contact sheets for that session!

Contact Sheets

click "next" till you get to the final print...

quite instructive..... don't you think?

-- Chris Yeager (cyeager@ix.netcom.com), July 30, 2001

Answers

Wow!

-- Jeff Polaski (polaski@Acm.org), July 31, 2001.

Not a very nice way to treat your models! (But when you're famous....)

-- John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com), July 31, 2001.

Great find, Chris, and thanks for sharing- seeing the contact sheets is such a personal look at a photographer's work.

-- Eamonn Aiken (eamonn@emulsionz.com), July 31, 2001.

One interesting thing is that the area he close to print is not much larger than 35 mm..

-- Chris Yeager (cyeager@ix.netcom.com), July 31, 2001.

80 shots+, 12 shots per 120 roll, 7 rolls?

I've got to take more pictures.

-- edward kang (ekang@cse.nd.edu), July 31, 2001.

Photographers beginning as apprentices in studios are criticized severely for taking too many photographs of a single pose or event. This validates the usefulness of "wasting film." Beautiful.

Two singers I admired as a child: Marian Anderson and Mahalia Jackson...wonderful.

-- Todd Frederick (fredrick@hotcity.com), August 03, 2001.