The Classic Hollywood Contact Sheets You Were Never Meant To See
Back in a 1950s and 1960s, hit sheets were a primary vehicles joining icons of a china shade like Marilyn Monroe and Jimmy Stewart with their adoring fans.
Movie studios enlisted photographers to snap vehement shots with hand-held cameras regulating 35mm film backstage, capturing insinuate glimpses of life behind a scenes to foster Hollywood’s seminal films. The extemporaneous tide of images came together as hit sheets, frame-by-frame repository of cinema in motion. The studio executives would handpick a few photos from a frames to imitation and sell to magazines, while a sheets themselves went secret and forgotten… until now.
Contact Sheet Of Grace Kelly and James Stewart in ‘Rear Window’
In her book “Hollywood Frame by Frame,” publisher Karina LongworthThe hit sheets give us a fuller, and some-more entirely account request of a impulse than a still sketch that’s been edited, cropped, and airbrushed could do alone
Marilyn Monroe Filming ‘Bus Stop’
Through a hit sheets, fans could knowledge a selected prophesy of films like “Julius Caesar” and “Rear Window” they were never dictated to see. You can indeed declare a modifying routine of a images, interjection to a scribbles and coop outlines that symbol a images a studios motionless not to recover to a public, or a stars themselves vetoed. The detailed grids offer discernment into a modifying routine before a arise of digital images, containing within them a demeanour during photography history, film story and glamorous Hollywood snapshots all during once.
Check out “Hollywood Frame by Frame: The Unseen Silver Screen in Contact Sheets, 1951-1997”
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