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Philippe Halsman Research Paper

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Philippe Halsman was born in Riga, Latvia and lived from 1906 to 1979. Halsman first became interested in portrait photography when him and his family went on vacations to museums in Europe. When he was 15 he really became intrigued by his father's camera and photographed everyone he saw. In school Halsman was the class president and learned 5 different languages such as German, French, Latin, Russian, and Lettish. His father intended him to study medicine but Halsman ended up studying engineering in Dresden, Germany. A few years after he found himself in Paris and opened up his very own portrait studio, and soon later married his wife and mother to his two daughters. In around 1940 Halsman came to America with a visas to the intervention

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