Contact Sheets
Before the digital age, photographers reviewed and edited their shoots on contact sheets, records of a full roll of film. To coincide with the release of Magnum Contact Sheets, a compendium of these artifacts, we present a gallery of iconic images and their contact sheets. BERLIN—The fall of the Berlin Wall, November 1989.
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Book of the Week RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. You've got to be careful of the seduction of digital—the idea that you can make a picture better by changing it. You just can’t make anything better by changing it. It’s more important to be true. Burt Glinn |