| Photographer Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali collaborated on a series of images, the result of which is a fascinating look at how photography appealed to Dali in the 1940s-60s. Magnum and Slate present a compendium of images from this series to celebrate the birth of Dali on May 11, 1904. (This gallery contains nudity.)
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A play on Dali’s The Persistence of Memory (1931), 1952.
UNITED STATES—Dali's My Hairspring, 1954.
Dali Atomicus, by Dali, 1948.
SPAIN—Dali in bed, projecting pieces of dirty paper "to stimulate his inspiration," 1964.
NEW YORK—Dali's Chaos & Creation, 1960.
PORT LIGAT, Spain—Dali, 1941.
UNITED STATES—Las Meninas after Velásquez, 1965.
PORT LIGAT, Spain—Dali. "In 1964, when the radio and newspapers announced that Dali had shaved his mustache,
the information was wrong and Philippe and Dali concocted a photograph to show the world that Dali's mustache was still there, as strong as ever."—Yvonne Halsman, 1964.
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