Portraits by Halsman, Phillipe - Photographs; Edited by Ivonne Halsman with Irene Halsman Rosenberg and Jane Halsman Bello - 1983.

McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1983. Cloth bound hardback lacking dj First edition Cover is Good with soiling and a couple of small stains; interior is fine except for a couple of spots of paint on the first page of captions. 119 full-page, b&w photographic plates; 13 x 13 inches. Includes a long section of extended captions taken from Halsman's journals and describing the session with the subject. Out of Print. "Portraits presents for the first time a comprehensive gathering of the work of one of the towering giants in portrait photography." In 1958, a poll conducted by Popular Photography named Halsman one of the "World's Ten Greatest Photographers" along with Penn, Avedon, Ansel Adams, Cartier-Bresson, Eisenstaedt, Haas, Karsh, Mili, and Eugene Smith. This volume, produced posthumously, contains exquisitely printed portraits of some of the most influential people of this century including Albert Einstein (a life-long friend), Winston Churchill, Jean Cocteau, Marc Chagall, Salvadore Dali, Louis Armstrong, Martha Graham, Jean-Paul Sartre, Andy Warhol, Mai Zetterling and many more. FREE SHIPPING and tracking within the US by Media Mail. Careful and secure packaging.