The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Irving Penn In Cracked Mirror, Sheet C, New York

Irving Penn In Cracked Mirror, Sheet C, New York

1986, printed July 2000
(American, 1917–2009)
Paper: 59.7 x 45.7 cm (23 1/2 x 18 in.)
© 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=Irving Penn In Cracked Mirror, Sheet C, New York|url=false|author=Irving Penn|year=1986, printed July 2000|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.33