Philippe Halsman Tippi Hedren. Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. 1962.
“In 1962, LOOK magazine gave Philippe Halsman the assignment to shoot their December cover story: ’Tippi Hedren: Hitchcock's new Grace Kelly’. Ha
(...) lsman traveled to the set of Alfred Hitchcock's movie ‘The Birds’ in Northern California. The film was to be a revenge story, in which birds get back at humans for centuries of being hunted. Hitchcock was excited to show Halsman all the effort that went into the use of mechanical birds and the training of live birds for his latest film. The main animal trainer Ray Berwick said of Tippi: ’That nice girl took a lot of abuse. It's a miracle she got through it with her face intact.’ This photograph shows the unexpected bond that developed between Tippi and Buddy the raven, who had been trained to light matches. Apparently Tippi grew so fond of him that she put a sign on her dressing room door that read: ’Buddy and Tippi’. Many of the photos from this shoot also ran as a cover story for LIFE magazine in 1963.”
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