HALSMAN, Philippe. Philippe Halsman's Jump Book.

Bologna, Italy: Damiami, 2015. 

Hard cover. Reprint. 4to.; 96 pages; with duotone illustrations throughout; text and images clean and bright; binding tighter; bound tightly in red cloth boards stamped in black on the spine; corners sharp; like new. In pictorial white dust jacket with red and black lettering on front cover and spine; like new. Halsman, who had 101 Life covers to his credit when he died in 1979, felt a portrait that did not show psychological insight was "an empty likeness" of its subject. Rolleiflex in hand and tongue in cheek, he invented his own Rorschach test—”jumpology”—and talked his subjects into becoming airborne in the interest of science. Richard Nixon, Aldous Huxley, Marilyn Monroe, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are among the celebrities he launches into orbit.