Leaping sur. 2

And another selection from Halsman. Where more or less nothing jumps. Brains only.






Even chess player Bobby Fischer became his model. And the rest of his photographs were for him like a game of chess - Bring a mat for three turns.


















With Halsman Dali made so many photos that last for two books - "Dali Atomikus» (Dali Atomicus) and "Dali Moustache» (Dali's Mustache). But this impact on Halsman Dali has not ended. Halsman started to do the same, that Dali did in painting: to shoot the strange picture.


















They were mostly pictures, trompe l'oeil, which part of the subjects freely interchanged. Receive pictures, idea, speaking more than its individual elements. For example, a snapshot of Dali Atomicus was an attempt to show the movement of the electrodes around the core, and the picture of a checkerboard on the lawn - illustration of the famous philosophical assumptions about playing God.














At the same time, he loved to make their models of what they are, in general, were not. From the girls - the skull. From another girl - a table. From the pharynx - a new mustache. From the bath - the egg. From Cary Grant - Charlie Chaplin. From the breasts - a person.








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These include his series. Hitchcock and Tippi Hendren. Salvador Dali and Monica Vitti, Marilyn. Comparing these series with each other, I suddenly start to understand what unites Hitch and Hendren and discover new history.
















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