SCIENCE & SOCIETY PICTURE LIBRARY
1959 DALÍ ON DALÍ
There are few 20th-century artists who can match Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí for eccentricity – just look at his characteristic moustache. Yet, if this photo from May 1959 is anything to go by, it seems that his life and work even has the power to shock the man himself. During a train journey out of Folkestone, the artist thumbs through a copy of his own biography, The Case of Salvador Dalí(written by friend and magazine editor Fleur Cowles) with a mixture of concentration and bewilderment on his face.