Philippe Halsman
Latvia (1906—1979)Halsman set up his own portrait studio in Montparnasse, Paris, in 1934, soon establishing a reputation among the artistic community. In 1940 he escaped Nazi-occupied France with an emergency visa to the US, where he worked as a reportage photographer. His work appeared on 101 covers of LIFE magazine. In 1941 he began his long collaboration with Dalí, producing a series of “photographs of ideas” that continued for decades, including Dalí’s Mustache in 1954. In 1945 he became the first president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers.
