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Philippe Halsman (2 May 1906 Riga, Latvia - 25 June 1979 New York City) was a Latvian-born American portrait photographer. Born to a Jewish family, he became a photographer in Paris in 1931. He began contributing to fashion magazines such as Vogue and soon gained a reputation as one of the best portrait photographers in France renowned for his sharp, dark images, shunning the old soft focus look. When France was invaded, Halsman fled to Marseille and eventually managed to obtain a U.S. visa, aided by family friend Albert Einstein (whom he later famously photographed in 1947). In 1941 Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí and they began collaborating in the late 1940s. In 1951 Halsman was commissioned by NBC to photograph various popular comedians of the time including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Groucho Marx, and Bob Hope. While photographing the comedians doing their acts he captured many of the comedians in mid air which went on to inspire many later jump pictures. His 1961 book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas, discussed ways for photographers to produce unusual pieces of work, by following three rules: "the rule of the unusual technique", "the rule of the added unusual feature" and "the rule of the missing feature". Other celebrities photographed by Halsman include Alfred Hitchcock, Judy Garland, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pablo Picasso. Many of those photographs appeared on front covers of Life. In 1958 Halsman was listed in Popular Photography's "World's Ten Greatest Photographers", and in 1975 he received the "Life Achievement in Photography Award" from the American Society of Magazine Photographers.
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Three Models in Bathing Suits 1944

Unidentified models in bathing suits with a date of 1944 written in pencil on the reverse below Halsman's stamp. Original silver print 14 x 11 with...
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Virginia Haggard, Lover of Marc Chagall & their Son, David

Virginia Haggard was the daughter of a former British consul in the U.S. When they met, Chagall was 58 years old, Virginia – 30. The artist could...
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Vivian Leigh 1946

Vivien Leigh (born Vivian Mary Hartley, and also known as Lady Olivier after 1947; 5 November 1913 – 8 July 1967) was an English stage and film...
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Vladimir Nobokov

Vladimir Nabokov (Russian: [10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977] was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels...
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Wide Eyed Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí (11 May 1904 – 23 January 1989), known professionally as Salvador Dalí; Spanish: was a prominent Spanish surrealist born in...
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Gertrude Laurence in Soldier's Costume

British born actress Gertrude Laurence in a costume likely used for one of her performances entertaining British troops during WW II. This is an...
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(image for) Hazel Scott & Adam Clayton Powell Wedding Pic by Phlippe Halsman

Hazel Scott & Adam Clayton Powell Wedding Pic by Phlippe Halsman

Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was an internationally known, American jazz and classical pianist and singer; she also...
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(image for) Helen Hayes by Philippe Halsman 1951

Helen Hayes by Philippe Halsman 1951

Helen Hayes Brown (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered...
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(image for) Helen Hayes, First Lady of the Theater by Phlippe Halman

Helen Hayes, First Lady of the Theater by Phlippe Halman

Helen Hayes Brown (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 80 years. She eventually garnered...
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(image for) Marc Chagall, by Phlippe Halsman c. 1951

Marc Chagall, by Phlippe Halsman c. 1951

Marc Zakharovich Chagall - 6 July [O.S. 24 June] 1887 – 28 March 1985) was a Belarussian-Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes...
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