
Philippe Halsman美国, 1906–19791958
Named among the world’s ten greatest photographers
Popular Photography magazine lists him among the “World’s Ten Greatest Photographers”.
1959
Publishes “Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book”
The book contains a tongue-in-cheek discussion of “jumpology” and 178 photographs of celebrity jumpers. This is the name he gave to his philosophy of jump photography: when you ask a person to jump, his attention goes to the act of jumping, the mask falls, and the real person appears.
1960 · 获奖
Golden Plate Award
1961
Publishes “Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas”
The book sets out six rules for producing unusual photographs: the direct approach, the unusual technique, the added unusual feature, the missing feature, compounded features and the literal or ideographic method.