Dali Atomicus

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.

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.

1958

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.