Personal Profile of Philip Halsman

Halsman (1906) was born in Riga, the capital of Latvia, Europe. His father was a dentist. When he was young, Halsman studied electricity and machinery in Dresden for three years and became interested in photography. 1930, he lived in Paris and took up photography. 1940 On the eve of Nazi occupation of Paris, with the help of scientist Einstein, he fled to the United States with his box and camera. He lived in new york until/kloc-0 died in June, 1979 at the age of 73. [1] Halsman (1906- 1979), a famous photographer, is famous for taking portraits of celebrities, but he has produced a shocking effect in the surrealist conceptual photography space. He was born in Latvia, then taught himself to be a photographer in Paris, and really became famous after moving to the United States. Through portrait photography, Halsman explored the soul in the depths of the individual. At the same time, through his sensitive psychological intuition, the camera has also become a microscope of the soul. At the same time, he also explored his inner world and turned some whimsical humorous colors and ideas into unexpected images. The engineer's background allows him to carry out various experiments and invent some technologies that can turn things in his mind into real pictures.

Halsman found pleasure in his father's camera at the age of 14. His first magical experience in the darkroom was developing negative glass with his sister, which stimulated him to spend all his pocket money on photographic equipment and accessories. 1924, he decided to study electrical engineering. In his words, "it seems that this is my great career in the future"-he took his camera to Dresden, a university with excellent technology.

1928, Halsman, who was only 22 years old, was almost destroyed, which changed his life track. The Halsman family met a tourist on a train trip, and strongly recommended them to visit the Tyrol residential area in the Austrian Alps. This was not planned in their initial trip, but his father Marx was moved, so he and his parents landed in Innsbruck, except that his sister decided to go back to Paris. Just as he and his father climbed a mountain, his father accidentally fell and died. However, due to his language barrier and Jewish identity, he was detained by local radical forces (later Nazis) on the charge of murdering his father and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment and hard labor. Fortunately, the street mother was taken in by local good people, and his sister, who was only 18 years old, struggled alone and tried to rescue her brother through various forces. [3]