Philippe Halsman - Jump Book (LIKE NEW AND UNREAD) - 1986

WONDERFUL NEW EDITION OF THE LEGENDARY "JUMP BOOK" by American portrait photographer Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) - originally published in 1959.

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Dean Martin, Weegee, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Edward Steichen, Brigitte Bardot, Richard Nixon, Marc Chagall, Walter Gropius, Jerry Lewis, Sophia Loren, Audrey Hepburn, Gina Lollobrigida, Shirley Temple, Ava Gardner, Anthony Perkins, Peter Ustinov, Jayne Mansfield, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and many others.

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"Where other portraitists were content to have their subjects sit for them, Philippe Halsman had his jump. He was regarded as one of the world's greatest portrait photographers, and had to his credit 101 Life magazine covers. At the height of his career, he sought to extend his realm into unexplored territory. "In a jump," he wrote, "the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible." For six years, Halsman asked his illustrious sitters to jump for him, and most complied: Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, and Brigitte Bardot; Richard Nixon and Adlai Ste-venson; Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor; and countless others from the arts, sciences, poli-tics, business, and sports leapt at the chance. In 1959, Philippe Hals-man's Jump Book made publishing history by introducing the brand new science of "jumpology." This unique and authoritative book has long been out of print, and so Abrams takes great pleasure in reissuing it, adding previously unpublished jumps, in recognition of this revolutionary breakthrough that united briefly the science of psychology and the art of photography."
(from the publisher)

"Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was one of the great portrait photographers of our time. He had more Life magazine covers (101) to his credit than any other photographer, and three of his well-loved portraits—of Albert Einstein, Adlai Stevenson, and John Steinbeck-were used on United States postage stamps. His photograph of André Gide was used on a French stamp. His colleagues elected him as first president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers in 1944, and in 1958, he was chosen as one of the world's ten best photographers in an international poll. He was the recipient of the ASMP Life Achievement in Photography Award in 1975. Beginning in 1986, the ASMP instituted an annual Philippe Halsman Award for Photojournalism.
His work is represented in the permanent collections of numerous museums in the United States and abroad. Among his many one-man exhibitions was a retrospective that began at the International Center of Photography in New York in 1979 and will continue to tour the United States until 1988.
He was on the faculty of the Famous Photographers School, and from 1970 to 1979,
he taught a seminar on psychological portraiture at The New School, New York.
Halsman Portraits, published in 1983, is a survey of his contribution to the art of
(non-jumping) portraiture."
(from the publisher)

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Harry N. Abrams, New York. 1986. First edition, first printing.

Paperback. 223 x 280 mm. 96 pages. Photos: Philippe Halsman. Introduction: Mike Wallace. Text: Philippe Halsman. Text in English.

Condition:
Inside new, mint, unread. Outside very fresh; marginal trace of use, no remarkable flaws or defects. Overall near mint, near perfect condition.

Famous photobook title by Philippe Halsman - in wonderful fresh condition.

"Philippe Halsman was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.
Halsman was born in Riga to a Jewish couple, Morduch (Maks) Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal. He studied electrical engineering in Dresden.
In September 1928, 22-year-old Halsman was accused of his father's murder while they were on a hiking trip in Tyrol, Austria, an area rife with antisemitism. After a trial based on circumstantial evidence, he was sentenced to four years of prison. His family, friends and barristers worked for his release, getting support from Thomas Mann and various important European Jewish intellectuals including Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jakob Wassermann, Erich Fromm, Paul Painlevé, Heinrich Eduard Jacob and Rudolf Olden, who endorsed his innocence. Halsman spent two years in prison, where he contracted tuberculosis. His letters from prison were published as a book in 1930: Briefe aus der Haft an eine Freundin. He was pardoned by Austrian president Wilhelm Miklas and was released in October 1930.
Halsman left Austria for France, began contributing photographs to fashion magazines such as Vogue, and soon gained a reputation as one of the best portrait photographers in France, renowned for images that were sharp rather than in soft focus as was often used, and closely cropped. When France was invaded by Germany, Halsman fled to Marseille. He eventually managed to obtain a U.S. visa, aided by family friend Albert Einstein (whom he later famously photographed in 1947).
Halsman had his first success in America when the cosmetics firm Elizabeth Arden used his image of model Constance Ford against the American flag in an advertising campaign for "Victory Red" lipstick. A year later, in 1942, he found work with Life magazine, photographing hat designs; a portrait of a model in a Lilly Daché hat was the first of his 101 covers for Life.
In 1941 Halsman met the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí; they began to collaborate in the late 1940s. The 1948 work Dalí Atomicus explores the idea of suspension, depicting three cats flying, a bucket of thrown water, and Dalí in mid air. The title of the photograph is a reference to Dalí's work Leda Atomica which can be seen in the right of the photograph behind the two cats. Halsman reported that it took 28 attempts before a satisfactory result was achieved.[5] Halsman and Dalí eventually released a compendium of their collaborations in the 1954 book Dali's Mustache, which features 36 different views of the artist's distinctive mustache. Another famous collaboration between the two was In Voluptas Mors, a surrealistic portrait of Dalí beside a tableau vivant of seven nude women posed to look like a large skull. Halsman took three hours to arrange the models according to a sketch by Dalí. Various re-enactments of and allusions to In Voluptas Mors have appeared over the years; most famously, a version was used subtly in the poster for the film The Silence of The Lambs, while an overt reenactment appeared on a promotional poster for The Descent.
In 1947 Halsman photographed a mournful Albert Einstein, who during the session recounted his regrets about his role in the United States pursuing the atomic bomb; this became one of Halsman's most famous photographs. The photo was later used in 1966 on a U.S. postage stamp and, in 1999, on the cover of Time, when it called Einstein the "Person of the Century."
In 1951 Halsman was commissioned by NBC to photograph various popular comedians of the time including Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Groucho Marx, and Bob Hope. While photographing the comedians doing their acts, he captured many of the comedians jumping, in mid-air, which went on to inspire many later jump pictures of celebrities including the Ford family, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Marilyn Monroe, María Félix and Richard Nixon.
Halsman commented, "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 developed a philosophy of jump photography, which he called jumpology. He published Philippe Halsman's Jump Book in 1959, which contained a tongue-in-cheek discussion of jumpology and 178 photographs of celebrity jumpers.
His 1961 book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas, discussed ways for photographers to produce unusual pieces of work by following six rules:
the rule of the direct approach
the rule of the unusual technique
the rule of the added unusual feature
the rule of the missing feature
the rule of compounded features
the rule of the literal or ideographic method
In his first rule, Halsman explains that being straightforward and plain creates a strong photograph.
To make an ordinary and uninteresting subject interesting and unusual, his second rule lists a variety of photographic techniques, including unusual lighting, unusual angle, unusual composition, etc.
The rule of the added unusual feature is an effort by the photographer to capture the audience's attention by drawing their eye to something unexpected by introducing an unusual feature or prop into the photograph. For example, the photograph of a little boy holding a hand grenade by Diane Arbus contains what Halsman would call an added unusual feature.
Halsman's fourth rule of "the missing feature" stimulates the viewer by going against his or her expectations.
The fifth rule enlists the photographer to combine the other rules to add originality to his or her photo.
Finally, Halsman's literal or ideographic method is to illustrate a message in a photograph by depicting the subject as clearly as possible.
Other celebrities photographed by Halsman include Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut during their 1962 interview, Martin and Lewis, Judy Garland, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Dandridge, Pablo Picasso, and Jean Cocteau. Many of those photographs appeared on the cover of Life. In such photos, he utilizes a variety of his rules of photography. For example, in one of his photos of Winston Churchill, the omission of his face makes Halsman's photo even more powerful at making Churchill more human.
In 1952 John F. Kennedy sat twice for photographs by Halsman. A photograph from the first sitting appeared on the jacket of the original edition of Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage; one from the second sitting was used in his senatorial campaign.
In 1958 Halsman was listed in Popular Photography magazine's "World's Ten Greatest Photographers", and in 1975 he received the Life Achievement in Photography Award from the American Society of Magazine Photographers, of which he was elected the first president in 1945. He also held many large exhibitions worldwide.
In 1967 Halsman received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
In the 2007 film Jump!, Halsman was portrayed by Ben Silverstone."
(Wikipedia)