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
I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures.
Style has no formula, but it has a secret key. It is the extension of your personality.
To express dynamic motion through a static moment became for me limited and unsatisfactory. The basic idea was to liberate myself from this old concept and arrive at an image in which the spectator could feel the beauty of a fourth dimension, which lies much more between moments than within a moment. In music one remembers never one tone, but a melody, a theme, a movement. In dance, never a moment, but again the beauty of a movement in time and space.
Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.
Living in a time of the increasing struggle of the mechanization of man, photography has become another example of this paradoxical problem of how to humanize, how to overcome a machine on which we are thoroughly dependent... the camera...
Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
Through photography, both artist and scientist can find a common denominator in their search for the synthesis of modern vision in time, space and structure.
I love to read theories without ever using them when working... The paradoxical fact in the aesthetic is that theories are also true in reverse.
You become things, you become an atmosphere, and if you become it, which means you incorporate it within you, you can also give it back. You can put this feeling into a picture. A painter can do it. And a musician can do it and I think a photographer can do that too and that I would call the dreaming with open eyes.
Color is joy. One does not think joy. One is carried by it.
Decide for yourself what kind of works you want to create... facts, essays, poems - do you want to speak or to sing?
Don't ever over-analyze your results. Don't ever try to find your own secret or the one which you admire. One does not try to catch soap bubbles. One enjoys them in flight and is grateful for their fluid existence.
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.