PHOTOGRAPHER

Philippe Halsman

1906 - 1979

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

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philippe Halsman has received more than 648,038 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Philippe Halsman is the 40th most popular photographer (down from 31st in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Latvia (down from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Latvian Photographer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 650k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Philippe Halsmen by language

Over the past year Philippe Halsman has had the most page views in the with 37,568 views, followed by Spanish (8,365), and Russian (5,137). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Macedonian (62.26%), Catalan (48.22%), and Korean (42.94%)

Among PHOTOGRAPHERS

Among photographers, Philippe Halsman ranks 40 out of 148. Before him are Edward Weston, Lewis Hine, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Wilhelm Brasse, Peter Lindbergh, and Andreas Gursky. After him are Astrid Kirchherr, Carl Van Vechten, Paul Strand, Josef Sudek, Oliviero Toscani, and Hippolyte Bayard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Philippe Halsman ranks 123. Before him are William Joyce, Ladislao Vajda, Jacques Pills, Jack Churchill, Mohammad-Hossein Shahriar, and Jean Dieudonné. After him are Pierre Fournier, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Antal Doráti, Jørgen Juve, Mary Astor, and Franz Waxman. Among people deceased in 1979, Philippe Halsman ranks 87. Before him are Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Walther Gerlach, Teruo Nakamura, Merle Oberon, Ahmad Zahir, and Preguinho. After him are Santos Urdinarán, Larisa Shepitko, Katharine Burr Blodgett, Morteza Motahhari, Ferenc Nagy, and Vagif Mustafazadeh.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Philippe Halsman ranks 53 out of 323. Before him are Aspazija (1865), Yevgeny Miller (1867), Eduard Totleben (1818), Juris Hartmanis (1928), Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903), and Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889). After him are Elya Baskin (1950), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Ferdinand Kettler (1655), Inese Jaunzeme (1932), Jānis Pujats (1930), and Pēteris Stučka (1865).

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Among PHOTOGRAPHERS In Latvia

Among photographers born in Latvia, Philippe Halsman ranks 1. 

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