Leap into the void

This time I'm going to write about this picture. Do you know it? The picture was taken by Harry Shunk, photojournalist from Dimanche news and published by him and Janos Kender as well. The image shows a performance by french artist Yves Klein (neo-dada artist) who is apparently jumping from window of a building. Photography shows exact moment when Klein is suspend in air then he jumped. Shunk took this picture in 1960 and was published in press on November 27 of the same year. I liked this picture because I like the Klein's work at first. He sought to give primacy to the intangible in art and cutting-edge trends resurrect after creative fatigue caused by World War II. His work put in practice the aesthetics of the immaterial, the poetization of the aerial and space semantization. He starts questioning reality through that time extract. So we don't really know if he is actually jumping to street or it was a photomontage such composed that can be believable to see.