Contact sheet with Mick Hannigan and Theo Dorgan

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Title

Contact sheet with Mick Hannigan and Theo Dorgan

Subject

Cork Film Festival, Contact Sheet, Mick Hannigan, Theo Dorgan, Festival Staff

Description

This is a black and white contact sheet of festival staff Mick Hannigan and Theo Dorgan. The contact sheet comprises four strips, with nine images in total. The numbered images show three head and shoulder publicity shots each of Dorgan and Hannigan and three images of them standing together.

We kept some examples of these contact sheets in the archive to show how photographers used positive prints from the negatives on a roll of film. This enabled the photographer to scan a series of thumbnail images to find the ‘keepers’ or the ones chosen to be enlarged. The photojournalist Henri Cartier-Bresson is famously known for analysing other photographers' contact sheets as a means of judging their work. We can see how the photographer explored their subject in the expanse of a single sheet.

In our example, we appreciate the images of the now-celebrated poet Theo Dorgan, and the cineaste Mick Hannigan who worked for the Cork International Film Festival for 27 years and now runs the IndieCork Film Festival.

Creator

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival

Source

Cork Film Festival Collection

Publisher

University College Cork

Rights

CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. All rights reserved. Please credit Cork International Film Festival & provide a link back to this site.

Format

Photo
TIFF
JPEG

Language

English, eng

Coverage

Cork, Ireland

Still Image Item Type Metadata

Original Format

Photo

Physical Dimensions

253 x 201mm

Collection

Citation

University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Contact sheet with Mick Hannigan and Theo Dorgan,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed February 2, 2025, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/542.