Philippe Halsman: Albert Einstein

Unknown Halsman reveals an overlooked, playful and bizarre side of Philippe Halsman, one of the most innovative photographers of the twentieth century. Most previous publications on Halsman feature his iconic portraiture, which appeared on the cover of Life and other top American magazines from the 40s through the 70s. He ...more

"Warning! This book is preposterous," says the back cover. This collaboration between the flamboyant Spanish painter and the Latvian-born portraitist is also a surrealistic work of art. Halsman understood the extroverted Dali better than any other photographer; their talents and personalities were the perfect complement to each other. In the ...more

Making faces: a highly original visual Q&A with France’s most beloved comic actor In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask ...more

Halsman, who had 101 Life covers to his credit when he died in 1979, felt a portrait that did not show psychological insight was "an empty likeness" of its subject. Rolleiflex in hand and tongue in cheek, he invented his own Rorschach test--"jumpology"--and talked his subjects into becoming airborne in ...more

Exhibition catalog. One of the most beautiful photography books of the year 2004. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. A magnificent production by Gregory Wakabayashi: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with black titles on the covers. The book is in two parts, has ...more

A retrospective of the photographic work done by the famous Latvian emigre between 1940 and 1970, in America. ...more

This is the book of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. It has been created by the World's great professional photographers. It shows, for the first time, their own works as major picture stories illuminated by their own commentary. ...more