The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 18, 2025
Marilyn Monroe
May 17, 1950
(American, 1905–1980)
Paper: 26 x 18.3 cm (10 1/4 x 7 3/16 in.)
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The contact sheet is a twentieth-century phenomenon.Description
The contact sheet—a piece of photographic paper which contains positive prints of some or all of the negatives on a roll of film—was necessitated by the advent of roll film, which produced small negatives, and rendered obsolete with the advent of digital photography. Having access to a photographer’s contact reveals the artists’ thoughts and working processes.- March 2, 2020the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- PROOF: Photography in the Era of the Contact Sheet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-November 29, 2020).
- {{cite web|title=Marilyn Monroe|url=false|author=Earl Leaf|year=May 17, 1950|access-date=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.10