Dali / Rhino
Artist
Philippe Halsman
(American, born in Latvia, 1906–1979)
Date1956
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions25.3 x 33.3 cm (sheet)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineGift of G.W. Einstein Company, Inc.
Object number1989.28
Label TextIn the 1930s Halsman became a leading fashion photographer in Paris. His sharp, closely cropped pictures looked fresh compared to the typical, soft-focus Pictorialist images of the day. Already popular in France, Halsman came to the United States to work for Life magazine during World War II.
Halsman began a collaboration with Dalí (1904–1989), the famed Surrealist whose exaggerated persona was itself a work of art. Dalí conceived of photographic images leaving Halsman to solve their technical challenges. A compendium of thirty-six of their portraits were collected in the book Dalí’s Mustache.
ProvenanceG. W. Einstein Company, New York, NYOn View
Not on view
