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          Philippe Halsman

          American photographer

          Philippe Halsman (Latvian: Filips Halsmans; German: Philipp Halsmann; 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979) was an American portrait photographer.

          He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City.

          Life and work

          Halsman was born in Riga to a Jewish couple, Morduch (Maks) Halsman, a dentist, and Ita Grintuch, a grammar school principal.

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          He studied electrical engineering in Dresden.

          In September 1928, 22-year-old Halsman was accused of his father's murder while they were on a hiking trip in the Austrian Tyrol, an area rife with antisemitism.[1] After a trial based on circumstantial evidence, he was sentenced to four years of prison.

          His family, friends and barristers worked for his release, getting support from Thomas Mann and various important European Jewish intellectuals including Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Jakob Wassermann, Erich Fromm, Paul Painlevé, Heinrich Edu