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Contact sheets: where the magic and chaos of photographs comes alive

From the D-Day landings and Tiananmen Square to Salvador Dalí’s flying-cat hijinks, contact sheets reveal the hidden secrets of unforgettable images

via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/sep/02/contact-sheets-magnum-photography-magic-chaos

Henri Cartier-Bresson, co-founder of the famed Magnum agency, once likened the contact sheet to the analyst’s couch. “It’s all there: what surprises us is what we catch, what we miss, what disappears.”