Philippe Halsman “ended his portrait sessions by
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Philippe Halsman “ended his portrait sessions by asking sitters to jump. It is a tribute to his powers of persuasion that Richard Nixon, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Judge Learned Hand (in his mid-80s at the time) and other figures not known for spontaneity could be talked into rising to the challenge of…well, rising to the challenge. He called the resulting pictures his hobby. In his 1959 Jump Book, he claimed in the mock-academic text that they were studies in “jumpology.”
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Philippe Halsman “ended his portrait sessions by asking sitters to jump. It is a tribute to his powers of persuasion that Richard Nixon, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Judge Learned Hand (in his mid-80s at the time) and other figures not known for spontaneity could be talked into rising to the challenge of…well, rising to the challenge. He called the resulting pictures his hobby. In his 1959 Jump Book, he claimed in the mock-academic text that they were studies in “jumpology.”
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