The Jump Artist
New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2009.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 252 pages ; 21 cm
Evocative psychological fiction based on the true story of renowned photographer Philippe Halsman, a man Adolph Hitler knew by name, who Sigmund Freud wrote about in 1931, and who put Marilyn Monroe on the cover of Life magazine. Surviving an episode that presages the horrors of WWII, Halsman transforms himself from a victim of rampant anti-Semitism into a purveyor of the marvelous.
Subjects:
Halsman, Philippe -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction.
Antisemitism -- Austria -- Fiction.
National socialism -- Austria -- Fiction.
Photographers -- Fiction.
Austria -- Fiction.
Halsman, Philippe -- Trials, litigation, etc. -- Fiction.
Antisemitism -- Austria -- Fiction.
National socialism -- Austria -- Fiction.
Photographers -- Fiction.
Austria -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781934137154
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SSHC F Ratner | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Selden K. Smith Holocaust Collection | In |
Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, Winner, 2011