Philippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia & began to take photographs in Paris in the 1930s. He opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse in 1934, using an innovative twin-lens reflex camera that he had designed himself. He arrived in the United States in 1940. In the course of his career in America, Halsman produced reportage & covers for most major American magazines, including a record 101 covers for Life magazine. In 1945 he was elected the first president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, where he led the fight for photographers' creative and professional rights. Halsman began a thirty-seven-year collaboration with Salvador Dalí in 1941 which resulted in a stream of unusual "photographs of ideas." In the early 1950s, Halsman began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera at the conclusion of each sitting. These uniquely witty & energetic images have become an important part of his photographic legacy. Philippe Halsman died in New York City on 25 June 1979.
Our Group Was Inspired
When we researched Halsman, we saw the jumping photographs. Because of that, the next time we went out with the camera, we tried it & we enjoyed it. So, Halsman's jumping photographs really inspired us to do that.
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