Philippe Halsman Reprinted Silver Gelatin Photograph from Magnum Photos

Item Details

Philippe Halsman (American, 1906 – 1979)
Untitled (Jean Cocteau, Ricki Soma and Leo Coleman), later reprint
Estate stamp to the verso
Printed description of the photograph attached to the verso

Philippe Halsman began as a photographer in Paris and opened a portrait studio in Montparnasse where he photographed many renowned artists and writers. Using a twin-lens reflex camera that he designed himself, some of his portrait subjects include André Gide, Marc Chagall, Le Corbusier, and André Malraux among others. Halsman joined the exodus of artists who fled the Nazis with an emergency visa initiated by Albert Einstein and emigrated to the United States with his family in 1940. His career in the United States brought him some of the leading artists, scientists, statesmen, and entertainers as his subjects, which appeared in the reportage and on the covers of major American magazines, including 101 covers for LIFE magazine. In 1941, he began a thirty-seven year collaboration with Salvador Dalí, during which he produced a series of photographs including Dalí’s Mustache series and Dalí Atomicus. Some of his other major career accomplishments include serving as the first President of the American Society of Magazine Photographers, fighting to protect professional and creative rights, and being named one of the World’s Ten Greatest Photographers in 1958. Halsman’s work has been exhibited and collected by numerous institutions, such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and the J. Paul Getty Museum among many others.

Condition

- no apparent conditions to note.

Dimensions

- measures the frame; image measures 5.5" W x 5.5" H.

Item #

ITMG730833