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"In this book, 'Phlippe Halsman. A Photographer's Life', Henry Leutwyler documents the professional and private life of the renowned Latvian-born Life magazine photographer (1906–79), who had more than hundred Life covers to his name―more than any other photographer. The author first saw the work by Philippe HALSMAN as a teenager in an exhibition at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in 1979; now, more than 40 years later, his fascination has finally found fruition.
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With his trademark approach, both forensic and imaginative, Henry Leutwyler teases in his book, 'Phlippe Halsman. A Photographer's Life', out the meanings held within inanimate objects and how they reveal their owner’s personality. In close collaboration with the Halsman Archive, he has photographed hundreds of objects belonging to Philippe HALSMAN―from his cameras to his glasses, from his passport to a range of letters (from Janet Leigh, Richard AVEDON and Richard Nixon, to name but a few), from table-tennis bats and balls to a collection of jewel-like, paper-wrapped soaps from around the world―in the words of Halsman’s grandson Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, 'magical evidence of a time that will never exist again.' (© Steidl Verlag, 2022)