Meanwhile #111

Contact sheets, lots of contact sheets.

Meanwhile #111

Whilst searching for something else – lord only knows what, my fragile mind only has so much RAM – I stumbled upon these fantastic Milton Greene portraits of Audrey Hepburn from 1951. One google led to another, and eventually I remembered that I actually have a pinterest board dedicated to contact sheets like this. Artefacts of the analogue photographic period, they may not have been intended as the finished product, but for me they stand as a medium in their own right. Artist and subject exposed, they’re more animated and honest than a single shot; posing and staging and editing captured in a place where sequential art meets cinéma vérité. Anyway, a few of my favourites (pics link to pins):


Audrey Hepburn by Milton Greene, 1951
Chicago by Vivian Maier, 1970
Jean Patchett Cole by William Helburn, 1954
Igor Stravinsky by Arnold Newman, 1946
Christine Keeler by Lewis Morley, 1963
Pleasures and Terrors of Levitation by Aaron Siskind, 1953
Jean-Michel Basquiat by Andy Warhol, 1982
Catherine Deneuve by Eric Swayne, 1963
Jack Nicholson by Harry Benson, 1976