Compare with Audrey Hepburn portrait done by Irving Penn.
Salvador Dali
Albert Einstein
Compare with Hitchcock portrait done by Irving Penn.
Two of a Halsman's"jump" portraits. Richard Nixon above, Marilyn Monroe below. Halsman commented, "When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears."
Another portrait of Marilyn Monroe, compare with the Monroe portraits by Richard Avedon and Arnold Newman.
Philippe Halsman self-portrait.
"A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were."
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