Philippe Halsman
Philippe Halsman was an American portrait photographer born in what is now Latvia who photographed famous celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe during the 1950’s. He was born in 1906 and he died in 1979. He took some crazy and unique portraits of his subjects doing wild things like jumping in the air and making silly faces. I really liked that he took a different and unserious perspective with his portraits. This photograph is of the famous actor Marlon Brando. It was taken in 1950. I thought this photograph was very interesting because of the way the lighting hits Marlon Brandos face. You have some very harsh light coming in from the middle, maybe upper lefthand corner and maybe a smaller less bright light shining a little bit on his ear.
I chose the photograph that I chose over the others because I personally thought that it looked the most like the one of Marlon Brando and it was the cleanest. I felt that the others we a little blurry or the light was hitting her face not exactly as I wanted. I also felt that the final photograph should be in portrait and not landscape. I am really happy with the way my photographs turned out and my model looks absolutely stunning!!
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