Halsman Archive File 09 -Victor Hasselblad 1968

Philippe Halsman photographed hundreds of subjects over his decades-long career, and developed closer friendships with several of them. Victor Hasselblad and Halsman had many things in common, but most interestingly they both invented cameras (In the 1930s Halsman invented a twin lens reflex camera). In 1885 Victor Hasselblad’s grandfather met George Eastman (founder of Kodak), and added Eastman Dry Plate & Film Company photography products to his Swedish import trading company. Several years later a new company was formed to focus exclusively on selling Photography products. Like Halsman, Victor was also born in 1906, and both went to study in Dresden in their teens. Victor studied the came...View all