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The Contact Sheet Comes Out of the Closet
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CREDIT: Edward Ruscha, A Few Palm Trees Contact Sheet, 1971. Gelatin silver print, tracing paper and crayon. Sheet: 10 x 8 1/16 in. Other (Tracing paper overlay): 9 3/4 x 8 3/16 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft. -
Roni Horn, CREDIT: You are the Weather, 1994-95 (detail). Thirty-six gelatin silver prints and sixty-four chromogenic prints, 10 ½ x 8 ½ in. each. Exhibition copy. © Roni Horn. -
David Wojnarowicz, CREDIT: Untitled, 1988. Synthetic polymer on two chromogenic prints, 11 x 13 1/4 in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Photography Committee. Courtesy of The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY. -
Andy Warhol, CREDIT: Untitled (Cyclist), c. 1976. Four gelatin silver prints stitched with thread. Sheet: 27 3/8 x 21 5/8in. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee. © 2009 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. -
CREDIT: Edward Ruscha, Mock Up #19 (South West Corner of Graciosa Drive and Beachwood Drive), 1971. Gelatin silver print, tracing paper, pigment, pencil, and ink on board. Board: 11 x 8in. Other (Tracing paper): 8 1/8 x 5 1/2in. Image: 7 x 5in. (17.8 x 12.7cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Foundation, and Diane and Thomas Tuft. -
Robert Frank, CREDIT: Parade—Hoboken, New Jersey, 1955. Gelatin silver print, 8 3/8 x 12 3/4 in. Private collection, San Francisco. © Robert Frank, from The Americans. -
Robert FrankCREDIT: , Trolley—New Orleans, 1955. Gelatin silver print, 8 5/8 x 13 1/16 in. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee. Gift, 2005. © Robert Frank, from The Americans. -
Robert Frank, CREDIT: Guggenheim 340/Americans 18 and 19—New Orleans, 11/1/1955, contact sheet, 10 x 8 1/16 in. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert Frank Collection, gift of Robert Frank. © Robert Frank.