“Marilyn, Part of a Jumping Picture Gallery” on the cover of “Life Magazine,” November 9, 1959.
“The astonishing photograph . . . is only one of the many surprises in an extraordinary new book. It is called ‘Jump Book,’ and in it the Duke and Duchess of Windsor plus 174 other celebrated people – from Marilyn Monroe (on the cover) to 87-year-old Judge Learned Hand – forgo gravity and self-consciousness in order to go up in the air. Never before has such a gathering been seen in such unexpected flight. Why did they all jump? Simply because Photographer Philippe Halsman asked them to. . .” [Text from the accompanying article]
“Marilyn, Part of a Jumping Picture Gallery” on the cover of “Life Magazine,” November 9, 1959.
“The astonishing photograph . . . is only one of the many surprises in an extraordinary new book. It is called ‘Jump Book,’ and in it the Duke and Duchess of Windsor plus 174 other celebrated people – from Marilyn Monroe (on the cover) to 87-year-old Judge Learned Hand – forgo gravity and self-consciousness in order to go up in the air. Never before has such a gathering been seen in such unexpected flight. Why did they all jump? Simply because Photographer Philippe Halsman asked them to. . .” [Text from the accompanying article]