Jump for Leap Year
Philippe Halsman photographed more than 100 cover portraits for Life magazine. On the side, he frequently requested that his subjects jump for him; he developed a study of what he termed “jumpology.” "In a jump," he wrote, "the subject, in a sudden burst of energy, overcomes gravity. He cannot simultaneously control his expressions, his facial and limb muscles. The mask falls. The real self becomes visible." On Leap Day, we give you an illustrious set of leapers. Manhattan Project physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 1958.
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Book of the Week  RFK Funeral Train by Paul Fusco Thirty-nine years ago this week in Los Angeles, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. A funeral train carried his body from New York City to Washington, D.C. In RFK Funeral Train, Paul Fusco documents the funeral train procession. Despite the hot weather, hundreds of thousands of people stood along the train tracks waiting to pay their respects. | Join the Fray  © Marilyn Silverstone / Magnum Photos What do you think of these photos? Join the Fray, our reader discussion forum. Coming from a country being swallowed up by its neighbor gave me a natural sympathy for the Davids over the Goliaths of this world. Philip Jones Griffiths |
