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contact print

noun

Photography.
  1. a photographic print made by placing a negative directly in contact with sensitized paper, with their emulsion surfaces facing, and exposing them to light.


contact print

noun

  1. a photographic print made by exposing the printing paper through a negative placed directly onto it
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of contact print1

First recorded in 1930–35
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Once dry, he presses a piece of glass against the materials, which results in a contact print.

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Fresh from an assignment—it might have been Prague, or London, or Nigeria, or Zambia—Priya told us stories of his travels and showed us contact prints.

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The magazine donated its New York archives to the museum in the 1950s, and for years the negatives and contact prints were buried in its basement.

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Ms. Kurland’s black-and-white contact prints of domestic scenes are an interesting supplement to her better-known color portraits.

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Back home, he had some negatives enlarged into single images, and fashioned many tiny contact prints into photocollages that bespeak a slightly crazed obsession.

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