Thread by @dean_frey

Philippe Halsman's #jump! photos are always fun, but today is an especially good time to leap into a whole bunch. The November 9, 1959 issue of Life Magazine had a jump shot feature, with Marilyn on the cover. #LeapDay

More Philippe Halsman #jump! shots for #LeapDay
Weegee. 1961
Steve Allen, 1959

More Philippe Halsman #jump! shots for #LeapDay
Phil Silvers, 1955
Kitty Carlisle & Moss Hart, 1958

"One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss."
- Marc Chagall
Photo: Philippe Halsman, 1955 #Jump!

"In a bad world he stayed good. His heart was in his voice & his body movements. When he got behind a piano or went on a stage, he was a man who put love & warmth into a room."
- Jimmy Breslin on James Durante, Damon Runyon, A Life

📷 Philippe Halsman #Jump!

Philippe Halsman & Marilyn #jump! #leapday
1954
His camera loved Marilyn, but it looks like Halsman was smitten with her himself.

Ava Gardner #Jump!
Philippe Halsman's 1954 shot is a kind of Ascension.

Peter Ustinov has his priorities:
1. read
2. smoke
3. #Jump!
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1955

"I wanted to see famous people reveal in a jump their ambition or their lack of it, their self-importance or their insecurity, and many other traits."
- Philippe Halsman
#Jump! with another great photographer, Edward Steichen, on #LeapDay

#PhoneCallFromPaul @Holdengraber on #LeapDay
Philippe Halsman
#Jump! Keith McHugh, President of the New York Telephone Company
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@lithubradio @CallFromPaul

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul More Philippe Halsman #jump! shots for #LeapDay
Grace Kelly, 1959
Victor Borge, 1956

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul Gene Kelly & Fred Astaire play it cool for Philippe Halsman's #Jump! series.
Part of the fun of these shots is to see earth-bound people in the air. This one shows the incredible strength & control of these great, athletic, dancers.

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul Kitty Carlisle #Jump! #LeapDay
Philippe Halsman, 1958
Naturally, the cat refused to jump
#Caturday

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul John Steinbeck by Philippe Halsman, 1953
#Jump! #LeapDay
Halsman notes that Steinbeck had trained as a boxer in his youth.
@holdengraber
#LiteraryBoxing 🥊

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul Van Cliburn refused to #jump! for Philippe Halsman. When asked why, he put his arms behind his back, lifted his chin, and said, "There is no need for explanations". At that moment Halsman took this picture.
1958

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul It's so great that other photographers have continued Philippe Halsman's #jump! tradition. Here's Orhan Pamuk by Alex Majoli
Cannes, 2007 #LeapDay

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul Martha Swope's #jump! shots of Dick & Tom Smothers
I Love My Wife, 1978
@NYPL digital collection

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl I don't believe Philippe Halsman ever took one of his famous #Jump! portraits of John Gielgud, but this 1991 shot by John Swannell will do nicely.
#LeapDay

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Pedro Almodóvar #LeapDay
Alex Majoli's #Jump! photo at Cannes, 2006

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Jean-Paul Belmondo by Raymond Depardon, 1960
#Jump! on #LeapDay

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Here it is, ladies & gentlemen: the greatest #jump! photograph of them all.
Elliott Erwitt, Ballycotton, Ireland, 1968
#LeapDay

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Two great comedy teams #jump! for Philippe Halsman:
Martin & Lewis, 1951
Edward & Wallis, 1958
It's #LeapDay - do something stupid

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl No one does it like Marilyn!
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1959 #jump!
It's #LeapDay - do it like Marilyn

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Or Dick
📷 Philippe Halsman, 1959 #jump!
It's #LeapDay - do it like a Republican

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl More #jump! shots by Philippe Halsman for #LeapDay
Groucho, 1952
Walter Gropius, 1958

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl More #jump! shots by Philippe Halsman for #LeapDay
Aldous Huxley, 1958
Mary Tyler Moore, 1966

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Jackie Gleason by Philippe Halsman, 1955
#Jump! for #LeapDay
He's lighter than air

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Philippe Halsman's #jump! self-portrait at the beach, 1954
It's #LeapDay - go for it!

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Lena Horne by Philippe Halsman, 1954
#Jump!
It's #LeapDay - do it with style

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Awesom!
Eartha Kitt by Philippe Halsman, 1954
#Jump! for #LeapDay

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Olivia Arthur
On set of the 'Jumpology studio' at the Moet & Chandon party 'Now or Neverland'
London, 2016
#LeapDay

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl I hadn't seen this photo before: Philippe Halsman's 1965 #jump! shot of Tony Randall, whose Centennial was earlier this week.
It's #LeapDay - do it with aplomb

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Another Philippe Halsman #jump! shot of a great photographer
David "Chim" Seymour with Irene & Jane Halsman, 1954
It's #LeapDay - do it in bunches

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl More #jump! shots by Philippe Halsman
Oscar Hammerstein II, 1954
Richard Rodgers, 1964
It's #LeapDay - do it on Broadway

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Randall Jarrell by Philippe Halsman, 1958
I don't think I've seen a poet in the #jump! series before.
It's #LeapDay - do it in rhyme
My own gray Daemon pauses on the stair,
My own bald Fortune lifts me by the hair.

@holdengraber @lithubradio @CallFromPaul @nypl Gisele Mackenzie by Philippe Halsman, 1957
And this, I think, is the first Canadian I've seen in the #jump series.
It's #LeapDay - do it in the Great White North 🇨🇦