All done "in camera", baybieee!
(...oh and hey, can someone "lolcat" this for me? kthanxbai!)
To be honest, I'm more a "Magritte-man" myself.
...but Halsman? = da BOMB!
Phillip Halsman: "Dali Atomicus"
--Essay by Brandon Luhring (January 30, 2002)
"Halsman set up his New York studio and using the 4 x 5 format, twin-lens reflex camera that he had designed in 1947 (Bello 206), he prepared to capture one of his most memorable photographs. He suspended an easel, two paintings by Dali (one of which was “Leda Atomica”), and a stepping stool; had his wife, Yvonne, hold a chair in the air (Jeffrey 192); on the count of three, his assistants threw three cats and a bucket of water into the air; and on the count of four, Dali jumped and Halsman snapped the picture. While his assistants mopped the floor and consoled the cats, Halsman went to the darkroom, developed the film, and reemerged to do it again. “Six hours and twenty-eight throws later, the result satisfied my striving for perfection,” wrote Halsman in his book Halsman on the Creation of Photographic Ideas. “My assistants and I were wet, dirty, and near complete exhaustion—only the cats still looked like new.”
Dali's "Lead Atomica".
"The portrait of Halsman's friend and colleague masterfully captured the essence of the Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali, while at the same time playfully giving reference to the painter's own work entitled “Leda Atomica” both literally and figuratively."
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