I’ve always loved (second image from top) Dali Atomicus, which features one of my favourite artists, Salvador Dali, along with three flying cats and a bucket of thrown water, captured mid-air. Delightfully absurd and shot in 1948 by legendary Latvian-born American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman, the piece is just one of a plethora of unmistakable portraits (you probably know this famous one of Albert Einstein as well) by the man known as one of the greatest photographers of our time.
Over his lifetime, the inimitable Halsman shot 101 LIFE magazine covers, worked for clients like Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC and Simon & Schuster and took on a remarkable “Jumpology” project, as shown above, where he began capturing some of the era’s most iconic artists, writers, actors, politicians and other public figures in a setup that defied the expectations of both their stature and the portraiture genre: jumping. From Salvador Dali to Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Halsman persuaded many to get a little reckless and abandon their composure for the camera, and the results speak for themselves.
Of the project, Halsman said its undertaking lead him to discover something about himself. “I assure you that often, before approaching the person, my heart would beat, and I would have to fight down all my inhibitions in order to address this request to my subject. At every time when the subject agreed to jump, it was for me like a kind of victory.” Love this. Risk = reward.
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