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Dalí's Mustache
With 101 Life magazine covers to his credit, Philippe Halsman (1906-1979) was one of the leading portrait photographers of his time. In addition to his distinguished career in photojournalism, Halsman was one of the great pioneers of experimental photography, motivated by a profound desire to push this youngest of art forms toward new frontiers by using innovative and unor...more
Hardcover, 128 pages
Published
January 15th 1996
by Flammarion
(first published January 15th 1984)
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Una verdadera joya encontrada casi por casualidad; hurgando entre las librerías en línea di con el ejemplar y lo adquirí.
Esta serie de retratos del genio de Figueras, tomados por el incansable Halsman nos dan algunas respuestas sobre Dalí, pero sobre todo, nos abren el campo a más preguntas. Dalí irradia su genio surrealista, absurdo, cómico y preciso a lo largo de estas cortas páginas. Un libro que puede leerse en unos pocos minutos pero qué está destinado a convertirse en uno de cabecera. Más...more
Esta serie de retratos del genio de Figueras, tomados por el incansable Halsman nos dan algunas respuestas sobre Dalí, pero sobre todo, nos abren el campo a más preguntas. Dalí irradia su genio surrealista, absurdo, cómico y preciso a lo largo de estas cortas páginas. Un libro que puede leerse en unos pocos minutos pero qué está destinado a convertirse en uno de cabecera. Más...more
I’m a photography student, but I'm not sure which I appreciate more, Dali’s personality, or Halsman’s talent. Dali is such a ham! My fave photo in particular is the “no problem is too knotty for me” photo. I’ve never seen a bowed out mustache before! Or maybe I’m just biased (I love bow ties!) + the last photo cracks me up. On the other hand, I wonder how Philippe Halsman feels now that the days he spent on manipulating his images can now be done within hours in photoshop. :>
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Jan 27, 2008
tENTATIVELY, cONVENIENCE
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Another artist whose work I dearly love. & even further proof that my politics doesn't always exclusively determine wch artists I endorse. After all, Stalin was great for that sort of thing, anarchists don't need to be doing it too. In the early 1980s I put together 2 editions of a small pamphlet called "Famous Moustaches". In the 1st edition, I included Frank Zappa, Adolph Hitler, John Waters, Groucho Marx, & myself (as Tim Ore). Waters pointed out that Dali shd be included. How cd I've...more
Absurd!!! I flipped through these pages and photographs repeatedly... However, I am not sure that I like it or not... Maybe, it had made some subconscious impact on me, but I am not sure...
Read on your own risk...lol
Read on your own risk...lol
Oh, sure, it's a goofy, quick interview of Dali being surreal with his moustache. The few pages of text from the photographer and publisher are awesome, and ramp up what you get out of this book. It's actually pretty brilliant.
Inspired photographic collaboration between Dali and Philippe Halsman.
Photographic genius?
Just when you think they can't possibly do anything else with Dali's mustache, they do ten more.
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Photographic genius?
Just when you think they can't possibly do anything else with Dali's mustache, they do ten more.
@hg47
When one of the world's greatest photographers meets the world's greatest mustache. Its's Mustachomania!...more
A wry little book; a minor collection of Q & A with the famous facial hair illustrated with artful photographs. A minor, if amusing, work that says more about Dali's marketing than it does about the man, his work, or ideas. Surrealism and absurdism are so ubiquitous in today's society that it has lost the power to shock or confound. But then we wouldn't have programming like Space Ghost Coast to Coast and 12 oz. Mouse today if Dali and his fellows hadn't laid the foundation.
excellent coffee table book....hilarious read!
Very enjoyable and interesting.
Oct 09, 2009
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Dali's Mustache (1996)
Warning! This book is preposterous!!!
Only about 100 pages long, this book pairs photos of Salvador Dali with amusing captions provided by the author. The perfect gift; one I, myself, received from my mother.
Nov 11, 2009
Felicia follum
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no one. I found it.
creative and humorous. I found it in the school library and just flipped through it in the library.
I usually enjoy Halman's photography, but this project left me cold.
hahaha hilarious...i want to be best friends with Dali.
Dali taken to a whole new level. Tee hee.
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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol, was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, Catalonia, Spain.
Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.
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Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931.
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“Since I don't smoke, I decided to grow a mustache - it is better for the health.
However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”
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However, I always carried a jewel-studded cigarette case in which, instead of tobacco, were carefully placed several mustaches, Adolphe Menjou style. I offered them politely to my friends: "Mustache? Mustache? Mustache?"
Nobody dared to touch them. This was my test regarding the sacred aspect of mustaches.”
