Philippe Halsman

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Philippe Halsman


Born
in Riga, Latvia
May 02, 1906

Died
June 25, 1979

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Genre
Art


(Latvian: Filips Halsmans, German: Philipp Halsmann)

Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.

In September 1928, 22-year-old Halsman was accused of his father's murder while they were on a hiking trip in the Austrian Tyrol, an area rife with antisemitism. Despite his protested innocence, endorsed by many important European intellectuals including Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jakob Wassermann, Erich Fromm, Paul Painlevé, Heinrich Eduard Jacob, and Rudolf Olden, Halsman spent two years in prison, contracting tuberculosis there. His letters from prison were published as a book in 1930: Briefe aus der Haft an
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Philippe Halsman's Jump Book

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The Frenchman: A Photograph...

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Piccoli: A Fairy Tale

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Halsman on the Creation of ...

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Unknown Halsman

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Sorpréndeme!

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Halsman Sight and Insight

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Halsman Postcard Box

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Piccoli, a Fairy Tale;

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Philippe Halsman, rétrospec...

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