You’ll hardly find a beach vacation photo album on facebook without some shots of people jumping in the air. That there is something special to this motif, is what Philippe Halsman was thinking when he talked celebrities like Grace Kelly, Richard Nixon, Audrey Hepburn, Salvador Dali, Robert Oppenheimer or Brigitte Bardot into jumping in front of his camera.
A collection of these pictures can be found in Philippe Halsman’s Jump Book published in 1959.
[via the photography post]