Joins Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Alfred Eisenstaedt, and six others to form the Famous Photographers School. Major solo exhibition at Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Receives the Newhouse Citation for journalistic achievement from Syracuse University School of Journalism. Makes first of two extended visits to photograph Vladimir Nabokov in Montreux, Switzerland. Makes official portrait of President Richard M. Nixon. With a total of 101, Halsman has more Life covers to his credit than any other photographer.
Health begins to decline.
Life ceases weekly publication after thirty-six years. Receives the American Society of Magazine Photographers award for Life Achievement in Photography. With Cornell Capa, founder of the International Center of Photography in New York, mounts a comprehensive exhibition of his career, which travels throughout the United States for the next eight years. Philippe Halsman dies in New York City. An early look at Halsman's work and career.