Ernst Haas
Ernst Haas
Ernst Haaswas a photojournalist and a pioneering color photographer. During his 40-year career, the Austrian-born artist bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression and creativity. In addition to his prolific coverage of events around the globe after World War II, Haas was an early innovator in color photography. His images were widely disseminated by magazines like Life and Vogue and, in 1962, were the subject of the first single-artist exhibition of color...
NationalityAustrian
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth2 March 1921
CountryAustria
in the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
I prefer to be noticed some day, first for my ideas and second for my good eye...
The most important lens you have is your legs
Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view. Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
Every work of art has its necessity; find out your very own. Ask yourself if you would do it if nobody would ever see it, if you would never be compensated for it, if nobody ever wanted it. If you come to a clear ‘yes’ in spite of it, then go ahead and don’t doubt it anymore.
In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
You don’t take pictures, the good ones happen to you.
You see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality. The summation of this indefinable net of your feeling, knowledge and experience. Take colour as a totality of relations within a framecolour is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The best zoom lens is your legs.
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.