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Marilyn (Glamour)
1979
Original Chromogenic Print
Stamped with the photographer's name and title,
copyrighted and hand-numbered in pencil, verso
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm), unframed
Edition of 100
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Marilyn *
(Cover of LIFE magazine)
1952/1981
Silver gelatin print
Photographer’s copyright stamp, hand-numbered in pencil (verso)
14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 28 cm)
Edition of 250
Edited and produced by the Neikrug Press
Printed by Stephan Gersh under the supervision of Yvonne Halsman
SOLD
Philippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia, and began his photographic career in Paris. In 1934, he opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse where he photographed many well-known artists and writers—including André Gide, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and André Malraux—using an innovative twin-lens reflex camera that he designed himself.
Part of the great exodus of artists and intellectuals who fled the Nazis, Halsman arrived in the United States with his young family in 1940, having obtained an emergency visa through the intervention of Albert Einstein.
Halsman’s prolific career in America over the next 30 years included reportage and covers for every major American magazine. These assignments brought him face-to-face with many of the century’s leading statesmen, scientists, artists and entertainers. His incisive portraits appeared on 101 covers for LIFE magazine, a record no other photographer could match.
Part of Halsman’s success was his joie de vivre and his imagination—combined with his technological prowess. In 1945 he was elected the first president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP), where he led the fight to protect photographers’ creative and professional rights. In 1958 Halsman’s colleagues named him one of the World’s Ten Greatest Photographers. From 1971 to 1976, he taught a seminar at The New School entitled “Psychological Portraiture.”
Halsman began a thirty-seven year collaboration with Salvador Dali in 1941 which resulted in a stream of unusual “photographs of ideas,” including “Dali Atomicus” and the “Dali’s Mustache” series. In the early 1950s, Halsman began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera at the conclusion of each sitting. These uniquely witty and energetic images have become an important part of his photographic legacy.
Writing in 1972, Halsman spoke of his fascination with the human face. “Every face I see seems to hide—and sometimes fleetingly to reveal—the mystery of another human being. Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.”
In 1958, Philippe Halsman was nominated in World’s Ten Greatest Photographers for Popular Photography, and in 1975, just four years before his death, the American Society of Magazine Photographers gave him the Photography Award for Life Achievement.
Halsman, Philippe
(Cover of LIFE magazine) 1952/1981 Silver gelatin print Photographer’s copyright stamp, hand-numbered in pencil (verso) 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 28 cm) Edition of 250 Edited and produced by the Neikrug Press Printed by Stephan Gersh under the supervision of Yvonne Halsman SOLDPhilippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia, and began his photographic career in Paris. In 1934, he opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse where he photographed many well-known artists and writers—including André Gide, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and André Malraux—using an innovative twin-lens reflex camera that he designed himself.
Part of the great exodus of artists and intellectuals who fled the Nazis, Halsman arrived in the United States with his young family in 1940, having obtained an emergency visa through the intervention of Albert Einstein.
Halsman’s prolific career in America over the next 30 years included reportage and covers for every major American magazine. These assignments brought him face-to-face with many of the century’s leading statesmen, scientists, artists and entertainers. His incisive portraits appeared on 101 covers for LIFE magazine, a record no other photographer could match.
Part of Halsman’s success was his joie de vivre and his imagination—combined with his technological prowess. In 1945 he was elected the first president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP), where he led the fight to protect photographers’ creative and professional rights. In 1958 Halsman’s colleagues named him one of the World’s Ten Greatest Photographers. From 1971 to 1976, he taught a seminar at The New School entitled “Psychological Portraiture.”
Halsman began a thirty-seven year collaboration with Salvador Dali in 1941 which resulted in a stream of unusual “photographs of ideas,” including “Dali Atomicus” and the “Dali’s Mustache” series. In the early 1950s, Halsman began to ask his subjects to jump for his camera at the conclusion of each sitting. These uniquely witty and energetic images have become an important part of his photographic legacy.
Writing in 1972, Halsman spoke of his fascination with the human face. “Every face I see seems to hide—and sometimes fleetingly to reveal—the mystery of another human being. Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.”
In 1958, Philippe Halsman was nominated in World’s Ten Greatest Photographers for Popular Photography, and in 1975, just four years before his death, the American Society of Magazine Photographers gave him the Photography Award for Life Achievement.