May 17, 2010

Go ahead JUMP!

In one of my daily readings I came across this amazing exhibition in www.laurencemillergallery.com by Philippe Halsman called Jump!. He was a photographer in the 1950's who did covers for Life, the Saturday Evening Post and many others. The fun fact about him is that when the shoot was over, he asked the person he was shooting to jump and he would snap a picture.
He managed to capture many iconic people of that decade and some that are still view as icons.
So they gathered all this images and made an exhibition of it. It's so full of life and happiness and peacefulness. He was able to capture so many emotions in just a simple shot of a person jumping. It shows us what and extraodinary photographer he was.
So...I'm not gonna post them all because they are quite a few, but here are my absolutley favorites:

Audrey Hepburn♥ 1955
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Bridgette Bardot 1951
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Salvador Dalí 1947
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Eva Marie Saint 1954
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Sofia Loren 1959
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Marilyn Manroe 1959
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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis 1951
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Gisele McKenzie 1956
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Duke & Dutchess of Windsor 1956
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How utterly fun and beautiful are these? You can actually see their true colors.
Go ahead to www.laurencemillergallery.com/currentexhibition.html to see more. Ther is more Salvador Dalí, Grace Kelly, Ed Sullivan and others. You will enjoy it more if you are vintage obsessed like myself :)

Until we meet again.

1 comment:

  1. Great photos:)

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