Marilyn Monroe

July 7, 1962

Marilyn Monroe, July 7, 1962. Allan Grant (American, 1919–2008). Gelatin silver print; sheet: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz 2020.2 ©1962 Allan Grant for LIFE Magazine 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 artists’ thoughts and working processes. The contact sheet is a twentieth-century phenomenon.