Philippe Halsmann was born in what is now Riga, Latvia in 1906. Halsman once said "I considered the human face the most interesting subject to photograph, I hoped I could explore it the way my favourite writers, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, had explored human nature, with psychological depth and honesty".
Philippe Halsmann was born in what is now Riga, Latvia in 1906. Halsman once said "I considered the human face the most interesting subject to photograph, I hoped I could explore it the way my favourite writers, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, had explored human nature, with psychological depth and honesty".