Photograph of the day
Posted: February 21st, 2017, 4:53 pm
I thought this board could do with a post so here is an image to share with you.
http://clair.me/portfolio/philippe-halsman/
A bit about the photographer and the photograph. It is of course a picture Marilyn Monroe. Maybe not so well known is the photographer Philippe Halsman who is the other person in the image.
Halsman was born at the beginning of the 20th century in Latvia and after leaving school chose to become a photographer. He moved to Paris where he would shoot portraits of artists and writers. He fled Paris when the Nazis arrived and used his friendship with Albert Einstein to get a visa and ticket to travel to the US.
The image is one of many he took of people jumping. At the end of a shoot he would ask his subjects to jump for him. It was his way of capturing his subjects with their guard down. The list of famous people that jumped for him is long and includes the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Richard Nixon, Groucho Marx. Liberace, Brigitte Bardot. He even started to characterise his subjects by the way they jumped. Women who jumped with bent knees were still little girls at heart. Jumpers who didn't move their arms did not like to communicate, professionals dancers would always be overly theatrical in their jumps.
He worked a lot with his friend Salvador Dali and produced quite a famous surreal image of the artist jumping with cats and water in mid flight arund him https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/ ... 0004012622
More of his work can be seen on the Phillip Halsman website http://philippehalsman.com/images/
Feel free to use this thread to post a link to a favourite image you would like to share.
http://clair.me/portfolio/philippe-halsman/
A bit about the photographer and the photograph. It is of course a picture Marilyn Monroe. Maybe not so well known is the photographer Philippe Halsman who is the other person in the image.
Halsman was born at the beginning of the 20th century in Latvia and after leaving school chose to become a photographer. He moved to Paris where he would shoot portraits of artists and writers. He fled Paris when the Nazis arrived and used his friendship with Albert Einstein to get a visa and ticket to travel to the US.
The image is one of many he took of people jumping. At the end of a shoot he would ask his subjects to jump for him. It was his way of capturing his subjects with their guard down. The list of famous people that jumped for him is long and includes the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Richard Nixon, Groucho Marx. Liberace, Brigitte Bardot. He even started to characterise his subjects by the way they jumped. Women who jumped with bent knees were still little girls at heart. Jumpers who didn't move their arms did not like to communicate, professionals dancers would always be overly theatrical in their jumps.
He worked a lot with his friend Salvador Dali and produced quite a famous surreal image of the artist jumping with cats and water in mid flight arund him https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/ ... 0004012622
More of his work can be seen on the Phillip Halsman website http://philippehalsman.com/images/
Feel free to use this thread to post a link to a favourite image you would like to share.