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PHILIPPE HALSMAN (1906-1979) - Marilyn Monroe Jump.

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PHILIPPE HALSMAN (1906-1979) - Marilyn Monroe Jump.
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“Marilyn,” Philippe Halsman later recalled telling her, “try to express your character a little more.”
“You mean that my jump shows my character?” Monroe responded hesitantly and then froze, unable to move.
Halsman considered this a psychological tool, his Rorschach test. Concentrating on the physical act of jumping, however large or small, necessitated a loss of inhibition and control and composure. (Halsman analyzes this at length in an endearingly overthought essay that accompanies his book on the “science” of jumping: “The jump does not always express what the jumper is. It can also express what he wants to be.”) It was the moment at which Halsman’s subjects, some of the most buttoned-up and venerated and recognizable figures in the world, were unmasked, briefly exposing their real selves, while still elegantly attired for their photo session. It did, as Monroe rightly, fearfully predicted, show one’s character. Does the act of jumping for the camera—now a well-documented, hashtagged trope—still produce such charmingly unpredictable results?

Marilyn Monroe in one of her natural jump's for Halsman. 16x12 inch print. Printed by his wife in an edition of 250. Mounted and framed.