Irene halsman biography

Irene Halsman was born on 13 January in Paris, France.

A year later, a little girl was born to us.

Irene Halsman was born on January 13, in Paris, France.

Oliver Halsman Rosenberg.

Photographer Philippe Halsman and Surrealist Salvador Dalí settled on the idea of tossing three cats into the air for the photograph Dalí Atomicus ().

Irene Halsman was born on January 13, in Paris, France..

CHRONOLOGY

1906

Philippe Halsman born May 2 in Riga, Latvia, the son of Max Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, principal of a grammar school.

1910

Birth of sister, Liouba

1921

Discovers his father’s old view camera and begins photographing family and friends.

PH experiences his first “miracle” as he develops the glass plates in the bathroom sink.

1924

Graduates high school (Vacu Vidus Skola, Riga, Latvia) first in his class, having studied Latin, French, German, and Russian.

Enrolls at Technische Hochschule in Dresden, Germany, to study electrical engineering.

1928-30

In 1928, Philippe Halsman, then a 22-year-old engineering student, traveled with his family to the Tyrolean Alps near Innsbruck, Austria. This tourist spot had become a center of the Heimwehr movement, a thinly disguised network for Fascist activity.That September, Philippe and his family came into tragic conflict with its overt anti-Semitism and growing power. While father and s