The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 20, 2024

Colette, Paris

Colette, Paris

1951
(American, 1917–2009)
America, 20th century
gelatin silver prints mounted on card
Paper: 19.1 x 27.9 cm (7 1/2 x 11 in.)
Gift from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz 2020.20
© The Irving Penn Foundation
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 artist's thoughts and working processes.
  • Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz, Cleveland, OH
    March 2, 2020
    the 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=Colette, Paris|url=false|author=Irving Penn|year=1951|access-date=20 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.20