Vintage Salvador Dali Photography
In the 1940s, Salvador Dali and Phillipe Halsman teamed up and produced a number of surrealistic works of photographic art — some are iconic, like In Voluptas Mors and Dali Atomicus, but the pair produced many different photos during their collaboration. Others, like this one (I was unable to find its title) and Midsummer Night’s Mare, made it to film but did not achieve the acclaim that Mors and Atomicus did. It’s easy to forget, when seeing the final results of such a mixing of the minds, that great art isn’t a coincidence or a singular act — producing art requires practice, numerous mistakes, and attention to detail that makes the final product look effortless. The Fall 1950 issue of Photography Workshop stripped away a veneer of that pseudo- effortlessness.
Dali, Katzen, Wasser und fünf Stunden für ein Foto.
Dieses Foto Philippe Halsmans von 1948 brauchte 26 Versuche, fünf Stunden und 13 Katzen.
And something to note – you could do this in photoshop now easily but Halsman did not – this was shot live. It took 26 tries to get it over five hours – Halsman counted to four, Dali leapt, 3 assistants threw the cats, one threw the water from a bucket and Halsman’s wife held the chair. Its all done in the camera. (Flickr User MonkeyC)
Fünf Stunden für ein bisschen Katzencontent. Erzähl das mal jemand den LOLCats.
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Welchen Dali hättens denn gern?
Menschen wie Pablo Picasso oder Salvador Dali wird ja gerne eine unnahbare Nicht-Banalität nachgesagt, die so wohl nie stattgefunden hat. Hier der Beweis: Dali beim amerikanischen Pendant zu “Was bin ich?”
