Philippe Halsman Livres

Classique culte et objet de collection, La Moustache de Dali est le résultat de la collaboration artistique étonnante entre le surréaliste Salvador Dali et le pionnier de la photographie expérimentale Philippe Halsman. Dali et Halsman étaient amis ainsi que collaborateurs professionnels pendant plus de trois décennies. Sous-titré Une Interview Photographique, le concept du livre repose sur une courte question posée à Dali, à laquelle il répond, suivie d'une photographie en noir et blanc correspondante de Halsman. Les photographies sont intentionnellement absurdes et hilarantes. Une question posée : "J'ai le sentiment d'avoir découvert votre secret, Salvador. Pourrait-il être que vous êtes fou ?" Réponse : "Je suis certainement plus sain d'esprit que la personne qui a acheté ce livre."

Making a highly original visual Q&A with France's most beloved comic actor In New York in 1948, photographer Philippe Halsman had a chance meeting with Fernandel, a French movie star from the vaudeville tradition, and asked the actor to participate in a completely original photographic experiment. Halsman would ask Fernandel questions about America to which he would respond using only facial expressions. With his wide, lovable horse-face, Fernandel mimicked the answers to such questions as "Does the average Frenchman still pinch pretty girls in a crowd?" (silly grin) and "What was your reaction to the great American game of baseball?" (perplexed). Fernandel`s reactions are laugh-out-loud funny, and the book that resulted from this unusual collaboration is nothing short of wonderful. The Frenchman has been out of print for over fifty years, but TASCHEN`s reprint thankfully brings it back to life.

Almost half Dalí's illustrations in this book have rarely been seen This publication presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dalí (1904-1989). After many years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret finally located all the paintings of this highly prolific artist. Many of the works had been inaccessible for years - in fact so many that almost half the illustrations in this book have rarely been seen.