Marilyn Monroe

1962

Marilyn Monroe, 1962. Bert Stern (American, 1929–2013). Gelatin silver print; sheet: 21.6 x 27.9 cm (8 1/2 x 11 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift from the Collection of Mark Schwartz + Bettina Katz 2020.12 © 1962–2019 The Bert Stern Trust. All rights reserved. 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. The contact sheet is a twentieth-century phenomenon