This web page was created programmatically, to learn the article in its unique location you possibly can go to the hyperlink bellow: https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/portraying-the-mask-personas-in-philippe-halsmans-photographyand if you wish to take away this text from our website please contact us [ad_1] About this Event 500 seventeenth Street NW, Washington DC 20006 View map Curated by Associate Professor Lisa Lipinski's History of Exhibitions class, this exhibition explores the work of Philippe Halsman, whose portraits of mid-Twentieth-century cultural icons reveal the stress between public persona and personal identification. Halsman (1906–1979), who arrived within the United States in 1940 after fleeing antisemitic persecution, revolutionized portrait pictures by theatrical staging, ingenious choreography, and daring experimentation. Structured across the themes of Comedy, Theatricality, Femininity, and the Mask Abstracted, the exhibition examines how Halsman inspired his topics to take part in their very own acts of masking — whereas concurrently questioning whether or not pictures can ever seize an genuine self. The exhibition provides a compelling dialogue with the Maria Callas costumes, uniting pictures and efficiency by concepts of identification and presentation. Image: Philippe Halsman, Allen Funt, Durward Kirby, Marilyn Van Herbur, 1960, gelatin silver print Gift of Lawrence Benenson, 1983 (P.83.18.165) © Philippe Halsman Estate 2025 [ad_2] This web page was created programmatically, to learn the article in its unique location you possibly can go to the hyperlink bellow: https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/portraying-the-mask-personas-in-philippe-halsmans-photographyand if you wish to take away this text from our website please contact us