Quotes by Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman

[Revealing character] can’t be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

Character

Silence

Voice

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

Portraits

Temptation

Too Much

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was

Portraits

Today

Years

Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

Likes

Reality

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface… .

Lenses

Lying

Portraiture

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

Asking

Children

Mother

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

Firsts

Photography

Prostitution

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

Actresses

Cameras

Trying

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

Cameras

Eye

Looks

In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.

Fall

Real

Self

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Actresses

Art

Asking

Beautiful

Cameras

Character

Children

Essence

Eye

Fall

Fascination

Firsts

Goal

God Love

Goddess

Hands

Humorous

Ideas

Important

Intelligent

Lenses

Likes

Looks

Lying

Men

Mother

Passion

People

Phenomenal

Photographer

Photography

Portraits

Portraiture

Prostitution

Real

Reality

Self

Silence

Special

Technique

Temptation

Today

Too Much

Trying

Voice

Writing

Years

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Quotes by Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman

[Revealing character] can’t be done by pushing the person into position or arranging his head at a certain angle. It must be accomplished by provoking the victim, amusing him with jokes, lulling him with silence, or asking impertinent questions which his best friend would be afraid to voice.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was

Dali likes me taking his picture because he is interested in pictures that do not simply reproduce reality. Even in photos he prefers to appear outside reality .That is surrealistic!

Herein lies the main objective of portraiture and also its main difficulty. The photographer probes for the innermost. The lens sees only the surface… .

I am often asked which picture is my favorite. This is like asking a mother which child she likes the most.

I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.

I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.

I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.

In a jump, the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and his limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible. One only has to snap it with the camera.

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