Quotes About Contact Sheets

#1. I like to be on my own when I look at my contact sheets, because I'm often disappointed ... But as years go by we become proud of our old contact sheets. They are a tool that allows us to fight against time.

Raymond Depardon

#2. I'm pretty selective. I generally edit the contact sheets and then do work prints. Because I have my own lab and printers, I can afford the luxury of going through the contact sheets for black-and-white, making up work prints, seeing them big, and honing them down.

Herb Ritts

#3. I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.

Carol Friedman

#4. Many photographers are consumed with the idea of making beautiful contact sheets. I am far more interested in making the best final print I can.

John Sexton

#5. I think you've got to watch out for anybody in high school who says he wants to become an economist.

Thomas J. Sargent

#6. A woman should not be judged for needing this reassurance, just as a man should not be judged for needing to withdraw.

John Gray

#7. Back in the 70s it cost 15-20$ a shot for the film, the processing, and the contact sheet, now it's twice that.

Stephen Shore

#8. We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Armstrong Williams

#9. Kids always think they're coming into a story at the beginning, when usually they're coming in at the end.

Joe Hill

#10. I have never separated form and content. The photo should have a meaning. But my photos are also more or less well constructed. If they had false notes, they stayed on the contact sheet.

Willy Ronis

#11. To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will have to cut off our heads.

Philippa Gregory