Marilyn Monroe with Barbells

1951

NBC commission: comedians in mid-air

NBC commissions him to photograph popular comedians of the day — Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Groucho Marx and Bob Hope. Photographing their acts, he captures many of them jumping in mid-air, which inspires many later jump pictures of celebrities, from the Ford family and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor to Marilyn Monroe, María Félix and Richard Nixon.

1951 · Affiliazione

Magnum Photos

1952

Photographs John F. Kennedy twice

John F. Kennedy sits twice for Halsman. A photograph from the first sitting appears on the jacket of the original edition of Kennedy’s book “Profiles in Courage”; one from the second is used in his senatorial campaign.

1954

The book “Dali’s Mustache” and “In Voluptas Mors”

Halsman and Dalí release a compendium of their collaborations, “Dali’s Mustache”, with 36 different views of the artist’s distinctive mustache. Another famous collaboration is “In Voluptas Mors”, a portrait of Dalí beside a tableau vivant of seven nude women posed as a large skull; Halsman took three hours to arrange the models after a sketch by Dalí.