Dali’s Mustache

Salvador Dali and Philippe Halsman

Dali collaborates with the famous portrait photographer Philippe Halsman who has more than a hundred Life magazine covers to his credit. Dali was one of Halsman’s favorite subjects. Dali would envision a seemingly impossible picture to shoot (always revolving around his mustache) and Halsman would in turn find a way to do it. The book is presented as a question-and-answer interview, with Dali’s cynical , cryptic answers being the caption for each photo. This combination of wit, humor and experimental photography originally published in 1954, is an enduring look at these two artists. The current faithfully reproduced volume includes publisher’s notes on how some of these unusual photos were achieved (such as gluing flies to Dali’s mustache). “Someday perhaps someone will discover a truth almost as strange as this mustache, namely that Salvador Dali was possibly also a painter.” DW

Publisher: Flammarion
Hardback: 128 pages
Illustrated