TIESTHOUSANDS THE JUMP ON MADISON AVENUE
The late and former faculty member Stanley Edgar Hyman is the airborne subject of a Berluti billboard in New York City. The photographer, Philippe Halsman, requested the active shot for part of a series with leaping subjects, but estimated that Hyman would not be able to jump very high. His first shot captured only Hyman’s feet. Hyman’s leap became the inspiration for the Berluti billboard on Madison Avenue. Check out the full recount of the story at Tablet Magazine (tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/150266/stanley-edgarhyman), as told by his son Laurence Jackson Hyman ’64.
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