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contact print

[′kän‚takt ‚print]

(graphic arts)

A photographic image produced by the exposure of a sensitized emulsion in direct contact with a negative or positive transparency.

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These disparate images and techniques were somewhat united by their underlying evocations of touch (an enlarged finger, contact prints, reliefs, and substances extracted from the body), a sensation that Backstrom also complicates by shifting the viewer's relationship to the body's scale.

Fia Backstrom: CALLICOON FINE ARTS

"Fortunately we had the contact prints of photographs taken by the photographer John Bulmer during one of the art festivals.

Artist returns to unspoiled beauty of her ancestral home for exhibition's inspiration; NATIONAL TRUST NOW CARES FOR HISTORIC SITE RACHAEL MISSTEAR West Wales Editor rachael.misstear@walesonline.co.uk

Every time I wanted to illustrate a book or an article, I would drive up to his house--often as the last visitor was leaving--and he would locate contact prints of each project in a few minutes of looking in file drawers.

The father of architectural photography, Julius Shulman, dies in his Hollywood home, aged 98

The original sepia-toned photos were usually made as contact prints from same-size glass-plate negatives and are therefore often extremely sharp--truly windows into the past.

George Wade Foott: contemporary mining artist

He says exploring the memorabilia was "like opening a cave in some ancient land, filled with treasure, except instead of piles of gold and silver, there were boxes and boxes of photographs, negatives and contact prints, thousands of them.

Sammy Davis Jr.: singer, dancer, actor ... photographer!

Photograms have been fascinating since Niepce, Bayard and Talbot created cool contact prints while testing their emulsions back in the 19th century.

Giant negatives are big fun

His surviving images are based on contact prints using objects or engravings that were placed on light-sensitive paper and exposed to light, washed, then fixed using a salt solution.

Photography in all its guises

The reproductions are made from 8X10, 5X7, and 4X5-inch gelatin silver chloride contact prints, and are printed in 600-line screen quadtone.

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Until the early 1850s the only photographic technique available to Kerr would have been the calotype photographic process, which used paper negatives and contact prints such as prints on salted paper.

John Hunter Kerr: photographer

In Fissures (16 mm, 2.5 minutes, 1999), home-movie footage is contact printed then hand-processed and toned so that the images are warped and fractured, emerging from and disappearing into passages of darkness.

Beyond the fringe

This shot and the unseen strip of contact prints from the same session,as well as many other stunning black and white photographs,now appear in this new collection of 68 images called Once There Was A Way -Photographs of The Beatles.

A RETURN TO YESTERDAY; Peter Grant on a new book of rare early photographs of The Beatles