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Photo by Philippe Halsman / copyright Halsman Estate. (Copyright Notice)
Reproduced with permission of Martha Graham Resources, a division of The Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, www.marthagraham.org. (Copyright Notice)

From the 1940s through the 1970s, Philippe Halsman's sparkling portraits of celebrities, intellectuals, and politicians appeared on the covers and pages of the big picture magazines, including Look, Esquire, the Saturday Evening Post, Paris Match, and especially Life. His work also appeared in advertisements and publicity for clients like Elizabeth Arden cosmetics, NBC, Simon & Schuster, and Ford. Photographers, amateur as well as professional, admired Halsman's stunning images. In 1958, a poll conducted by Popular Photography named Halsman one of the "World's Ten Greatest Photographers" along with Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ernst Haas, Yousuf Karsh, Gjon Mili, and Eugene Smith. Altogether, Halsman's images form a vivid picture of prosperous American society in the middle years of the twentieth century. "Philippe Halsman: A Retrospective" is the first historical survey of his work.

A native of Trinidad, Colorado, Erick Hawkins (1909–1994) forged an unusual career that began with George Balanchine’s American Ballet in 1935 and continued with Lincoln Kirstein’s Ballet Caravan. In 1938, he became the first male dancer to perform in the Martha Graham Dance Company, continuing with the troupe for more than a decade and entering into a tempestuous marriage with Graham. Establishing his own company and school in 1951, Hawkins developed a free flow style that was completely different than the techniques he had mastered under Balanchine and Graham. His company was an incubator for visual artists and contemporary music, and it only performed with live accompaniment. Hawkins himself performed at the Pillow in 1964, and his dancers planted a tree in his memory behind Blake’s Barn on the closing day of this 1996 engagement.

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1940 - 1950
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Halsman, Philippe (photographer)
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