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FotoWeek DC Special EventsContact/s: The Art of Photojournalism presents a selection of twenty-five contact sheets made since 1976 by the photographers of Contact Press Images. |
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FotoWeek DC Presents: Contact/s: The Art of Photojournalism | |
| DATE: | 11/15/2008 - 11/22/2008 |
| WHERE: | FotoWeek Central
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| DESCRIPTION: | Contact/s: The Art of Photojournalism presents a selection of twenty-five contact sheets made since 1976 by the photographers of Contact Press Images. Structural forerunner to both the photo essay and the television news segment that succeeded it, contact sheets are more than an editor’s tool or a presentation of sequential frames. They are in fact a cinema, a story. Providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse of unfolding events and a record of the photographer’s mental process, some record a wandering eye; others an eye “zeroing in.” Some are fluid in narrative, others—owing to the photographer’s alternating use of several cameras—disjointed. Most are black and white, some color. But whether shot in 35mm, in medium or panoramic format, all these contacts offer an increasingly rare commodity: unvarnished, unmanipulated, and unrepeatable truth. |
| COST: | Free |
