vintage everyday: Hilarious Black & White Portraits of Salvador Dali

vintage everyday: Hilarious Black & White Portraits of Salvador Dali

Salvador Dalí (1904 – 1989), was a prominent Spanish surrealist painter born in Figueres, in the Catalonia region of Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range of artists in a variety of media. (Wikipedia)




Salvador Dali swimming holding seaweed, and wearing seaweed beard and wig, 1955. (Photo by Hulton Archive)


Salvador Dali, his modesty protected only by a starfish, talking with Juan Figeuras on the rocks near his home in Cadaques, 1955. (Photo by Charles Hewitt)


Salvador Dali viewing the camera through a magnifying glass at his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava, 1955. (Photo by Charles Hewitt


Salvador Dali with his wife Gala (1894–1982) and a child at his villa at Port Lligat, 1951. (Photo by Daniel Farson)


Salvador Dali wearing an animal skull as a hat, 1950. (Photo by Hulton Archive)


Salvador Dali with models Sarah Meacham and Gabriella at a beachwear fashion show in Paris, 1965. (Photo by Reg Lancaster/Express)


Salvador Dali, with his distinctive moustache to the fore. 17th November 1951. (Photo by Daniel Farson)


Salvador Dali cavorting on a rooftop at his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava, 1955. (Photo by Charles Hewitt)


Salvador Dali, one of the principal figures of the Surrealist Movement, in a multiple exposure pose at his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava, 1955. (Photo by Charles Hewitt)


Salvador Dali wearing a customized pince-nez. 8th January 1955. (Photo by Charles Hewitt)


Salvador Dali next to a mirror. 3rd December 1951. (Photo by Ron Gerelli)


Salvador Dali in a bizarre pose sheltering from the sun in the garden at his home in Cadaques on the Spanish Costa Brava. The book he holds, needless to say, is upside down. 8th January 1955. (Photo by Charles Hewitt)


The idiosyncratic Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali arriving at the Pompidou Centre in Paris for his latest exhibition, 8th January 1980. (Photo by Keystone)


Salvador Dali in London with one of his paintings entitled “The Madonna of Port Lligat”, December 1951. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features)