Black and White Photography - "Philippe Halsman" | Featured Artist

Philippe Halsman was born in Riga and began to take photographs in Paris in the 1930s. He opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse in 1934. The Latvian-born American photographer known for his portraits of Marilyn Monroe and collaborations with Salvador Dali.

With the help of his friend Albert Einstein, the artist was able to escape Europe after the Nazi invasion of France and immigrate to New York.

Halsman began a thirty-seven-year collaboration with Salvador Dalí in 1941 which resulted in a stream of unusual Photographs of Ideas, including Dalí Atomicus and the Dalí’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.

Over the decades that followed, the artist’s photographs appeared in a number of publications including Vogue and LIFE. He died on June 25, 1979 in New York, NY. Today, Halsman’s works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others.

Quote: "I was never an apprentice to another photographer. Everything I know I learned by trial and error and by a lot of experimenting."

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