Philippe Halsman

is an American-Russian portrait, fashion and news photographer of Jewish origin. He was also a teacher and writer. He is considered to be a forefather of surrealist photography.

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Jump!

“When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping, and the mask falls, so that the real person appears,” the photographer Philippe Halsman recalled. At the end of the photo shoot, he would say with a smile on his face: “Jump!”

Philippe Halsman