shuvy shin's

Portraits from Philippe Halsman’s Jump series

"Starting in the early 1950s I asked every famous or important person I photographed to jump for me.  I was motivated by a genuine curiosity.  After all, life has taught us to control and disguise our facial expressions, but it has not taught us to control our jumps.  I wanted to see famous people reveal in a jump their ambition or their lack of it, their self-importance or their insecurity, and many other traits."

First row: Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, William Holden 

Second Row: Eartha Kitt, Danny Kaye, Eva Marie Saint

Third Row: Donald O’Connor, Kim Novak, Harold Lloyd

Fourth Row: Marilyn Monroe, Maurice Chevalier, Lena Horne

Fifth Row: Groucho Marx, Grace Kelly, Ray Bolger

The Hunger

Tony Scott | 1983

Spring 2014 Trend: Gowns Gone Graphic

Photo by Kyle Ericksen

Shanghai Dreamers | Quentin Shih

Robe, 1720-40

Black Swan crown

Burgundy

The Dance of the Whirling Dervishes (Mevlevihane)

To view more photos and videos of the Mevlevihane, visit the Galata Mevlevihanesi and Hz. Mevlana Türbesi location pages as well as the #Mevlevihanesi and #WhirlingDervish hashtags.

For visitors to Turkey, a glimpse of the Whirling Dervishes or "Mevlevihane" is a must for any sightseeing list. The Dervishes, whose name means ”those who have chosen the road of suffering,” begin each dance by greeting their master then removing a black coat, a symbol of the earthly world, to reveal a white dress that symbolizes purity or "safa." They start to whirl like the planets around the Sun, raising their right hands to the heavens and pointing their left hands to the earthly world.