05/13/2022
‘’Every face I see seems to hide and sometimes, fleetingly, to reveal the mystery of another human being… Capturing this revelation became the goal and passion of my life.’’ – Philippe Halsman.
It’s time! 📞👀
Long before wedding photographers were asking their bridal parties to “jump” or had acquired over 500,000 posts on Instagram, Philippe Halsman was getting midair portraits of some of the most important people of the 20th century with his Rolleiflex camera, a technique he called Jumpology.
Halsman was a Latvian-American photographer who is famously known to capture unique and representative images of notorious personalities such as Albert Einstein, Marylin Monroe, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and many more. His approach to his art was so incredibly distinctive and personalized, one could call it eccentric, but his goal in life was to only capture the raw truth behind every faces. To do so, instead of simply being asked to pose, each of his subjects were provoked, asked impertinent questions, put in abnormal angles, amused with jokes, or given the treatment silence.
One of his most famous techniques was Jumpology. He quotes: ‘’ In a jump the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.’’
We truly encourage you to read more about this ground breaking photographer who we personally hold at heart and discover more of his artistry.
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