Word: halsman
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...exhibition closes with a focus on one of Hitchcock's last films, The Birds. The horizontal flight path of one of the birds in Georges Braque's Blackbirds is mirrored in the angle that Philippe Halsman, a still photographer on the film's set, uses in the photo of a bird flying past co-star Tippi Hedren. Despite the apparent tranquility of René Magritte's The Deep Waters, the proportionally larger-than-life bird resting next to a clothed statue of a woman is as menacing as the crow perched on Hedren's arm in another Halsman photo...