Philippe Halsman life span was from May 2, 1906 - June 25, 1979. Philippe Halsman once lived in France and photographed for magazines like
Vogue and had built up to the reputation and expectations of being one of the best portrait photographers in France and was known for his soft focus and closely cropping. His first success was when he came to America by cosmetics using his images that he photographed, then later on in his career numerous of his photographs have been published on the magazine covers of
Life. One of Halsman's comment was, "When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the masks falls so that the real person appears." He had created a philosophy of jump photography and named it jumpology. The six rules Halsman used as a guidance for creating unusual pieces of work is: "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."
The way our group was inspired by Halsman's work is that he created a concept the was eye catching which is his "jumpology " method. His photography of jumping wasn't the only thing that captured our eyes it would have to be the unusual and creative objects that he incorporated into his photos. Also, the facial expressions the people he photographed was different.
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