Inspired by Salvador Dalí’s painting, this photograph by Philippe Halsman has changed portrait photography. In a world before Photoshop, it took the ingenuity of Salvador Dali and photographer Philippe Halsman—plus some deft cat-throwing—to produce this gravity-defying scene.
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Dali Atomicus: Phillipe Halsman & Salvador Dali’s Photography | 100 Photos | TIME
So lets take a duck, and put dynamite up its ass — Great Idea Salvador! You are a genius!
A world masterpiece of photo-surrealism! Repeat this is impossible…
Now this is art! The true meaning of Art Collaboration. Nothing beats to this against the recent photo editing applications or Adobe photoshop.
It’s “Philippe”, one “l” and two “p”s
We are watching a video of a photograph of a painting.
True Arts.
Cats musta been reaaally pissed, scratching the hell out of people for throwing them around like that
All before Polaroids for instant review then in 1948!
HELLO, DALI!
Dali /Halsman two genious working together. Tks a lot to uplad this uncredibble document. For the history of the Photograpy and tha suralistic era. Tks again
carai
awe-inspiring.
Poor cats