Jumpology

Alain Chamfort and Claire, ph. Pamela Hanson for French Vogue, c. 1990sI’m obviously not the only one who thinks jumping is so much fun. Some time in the 90s, French Vogue and Pamela Hanson took these photos in homage to Philip Halsman’s portraits of many comedians and celebrities jumping.

He commented, “When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears.” [Wikipedia] This is so true! It’s extremely difficult to think about aesthetic placement of one’s hands, and aspects of composition, not to mention non-contorted facial expressions while one is mid-flight. There’s so little time, after all.

Halsman even developed a tongue-in-cheek philosophy of jump photography, called jumpology. I think I like him.

Enjoy French Vogue’s take on it.

Marlon Richard and Lucie de la Falaise, ph. Pamela Hanson for French Vogue, c. 1990sMarc Cholodenko and Annabelle D’Huart, ph. Pamela Hanson for French Vogue, c. 1990sAnthonis and Emmanuelle Alt, ph. Pamela Hanson for French Vogue, c. 1990sJean-Paul Gaultier, ph. Pamela Hanson for French Vogue, c. 1990sNadja and Antoine de Caunes, ph. Pamela Hanson for French Vogue, c. 1990s