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to jump

jump up

Philippe Halsman
Dali Atomicus, 1947		Brigitte Bardot, 1951
Donald O'Connor, 1952	Audrey Hepburn, 1955	Benny Goodman, 1957

Denis Darzacq
	La Chute # 13, 2005-2006	La Chute # 15, 2005-2006
	Note: The photos in Darzacq's sequence La Chute look like snapshots of falling bodies, but in fact they register carefully selected moments in breakdance jumps. We mention them here rather than in the page about falling, because we adopt the perspective of performance art rather than mimesis. (The signifier prevails over the signified. The anonymous dancer prevails over the photographer.)

 

jump down

Jacques Henri Lartigue

(1904 and later)

Philippe Halsman
	Harold Lloyd, 1950	Janet Leigh, 1951

Yves Klein Le Saut dans le Vide, 1960

Andy Warhol
	Suicide, 1964	Suicide (Purple Jumping Man), 1965

jump across

Buster Keaton         The Three Ages, 1923

 

rs, june 2011 / july 2012