{"id":11183,"date":"2018-03-31T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T12:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=11183"},"modified":"2018-07-12T01:36:51","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T05:36:51","slug":"the-photograph-that-changed-modern-portraiture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-photograph-that-changed-modern-portraiture\/","title":{"rendered":"The photograph that changed modern portraiture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Dali-LIFE-August-9-1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11184\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Dali-LIFE-August-9-1948-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>Toronto<\/strong>. <a href=\"http:\/\/philippehalsman.com\">Philippe Halsman<\/a> and Salvador Dali were friends. One was a famous portrait photographer; the other a modern artist famous for his many weird and surreal paintings. In fact as a youth I bought a book on Dali and his surrealist\u00a0paintings &#8211; those with melting clocks, long limbed people and crutches.<\/p>\n<p>After the war (in 1949) Dali created a painting based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dali.com\/dali-marries-myth-science-masterfully-leda-atomica\/\">mythological<\/a> Leda and the Swan, but with everything floating. He called it <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leda_Atomica\"><em>Leda Atomica<\/em><\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philippe_Halsman\">Halsman<\/a>, worked to create a similar \u00a0portrait of Dali called it\u00a0<em>Dali Atomica\u00a0<\/em>(see at left). Years later his daughter who helped make the portrait as a child narrated a short video <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4429888\/dali-atomicus\/\">here<\/a> on how it was accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to George Dunbar who found the August 9, 1948 LIFE \u00a0magazine article on Halsman&#8217;s portrait of his friend Salvador Dali, <em>Dali Atomica.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali were friends. One was a famous portrait photographer; the other a modern artist famous for his many weird and surreal paintings. In fact as a youth I bought a book on Dali and his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/the-photograph-that-changed-modern-portraiture\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,705],"tags":[1818,495,5,585],"class_list":["post-11183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-photos","tag-philippe-halsman","tag-photograph","tag-photographer","tag-portrait"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12065,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11183\/revisions\/12065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}