Philippe Halsman: The French Crate: The Unseen Paris Archive

Philippe Halsman: The French Crate presents the rediscovered glass-plate negatives by legendary photographer Philippe Halsman, capturing the development of his style and life in 1930s Paris.

Philippe Halsman was forced to flee Paris when the Nazis invaded, taking with him only his camera and twelve prints. Thanks to Albert Einstein's intervention, Halsman relocated to New York City in 1940. After the war ended, a crate of Halsman's glass plates was returned to him and subsequently forgotten ...