Philippe Halsman Libros

Cult classic and collector's item, Dali's Mustache is the result of the astonishing artistic collaboration between surrealist Salvador Dali and experimental photography pioneer Philippe Halsman. Dali and Halsman were friends as well as professional collaborators for more than three decades.Subtitled A Photographic Interview, the concept of the book is one short question presented to Dali, which Dali answers, followed by a corresponding black-and-white photograph by Halsman. The photographs are intentionally absurd and hilarious. Early editions of this book came with a warning on the back that said "Warning! This book is preposterous."Question: "I have the feeling, to have discovered your secret, Salvador. Could it be that you are crazy?" Answer: "I am certainly saner than the person who bought this book."

A major European multi-venue retrospective is in the works for 2009-2010."--BOOK JACKET.

Der Magnum-Fotograf Philippe Halsman gehörte mit 101 LIFE-Magazine Titelbildern zu den ganz Großen seines Fachs. Viele weltbekannte Aufnahmen bedeutender Persönlichkeiten, unter anderem von Marilyn Monroe und Salvador Dalí, die das Bild des Porträtierten nachhaltig prägten, stammen von ihm. 25 Jahre nach seinem Tod zeigt das Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne eine große Retrospektive. In vier Kapiteln zeigt der Katalogband eine grandiose Übersicht über das komplette Werk des 1906 in Riga geborenen, später nach Paris und in die USA emigrierten Fotografen, dessen geniale Porträtaufnahmen unvergesslich bleiben. Auf mehr als 350 großformatigen, hervorragend reproduzierten Bildern kann man sein abwechslungsreiches Werk in einem Band bestaunen.

Making 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 Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. With his wide, lovable horse-face, Fernandel mimicked the answers to such questions as "Does the average Frenchman still pinch pretty girls in a crowd?" (silly grin) and "What was your reaction to the great American game of baseball?" (perplexed). Fernandel`s reactions are laugh-out-loud funny, and the book that resulted from this unusual collaboration is nothing short of wonderful. The Frenchman has been out of print for over fifty years, but TASCHEN`s reprint thankfully brings it back to life.

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