The Daily Book of Photography

DAY 243

FAMOUS PHOTOGRAPHERS

Philippe Halsman (1906–1979)

JUMPOLOGIST

Latvian-born photographer Philippe Halsman was a high-caliber portrait photographer from the 1940s to the 1970s, and his portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, politicians, and dignitaries graced the covers and pages of numerous magazines, including Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, and Life. A 1947 portrait of Albert Einstein (a personal friend who helped him emigrate to the U.S.) was later used on a 1966 postage stamp, and again on the cover of Time in 1999, when Einstein was named “Person of the Century.” Salvador Dali, both a favored subject and a collaborator, ...