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
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
Is photography art?... The pure definition of the word 'art' alone is too vague today to break one's brain and soul about it. Let us take a little vacation from this word.
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.
Photography is a transformation, not a reproduction.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
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.
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.
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...
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.
Beware of color theories. Theories in color photography are dangerous. The plain fact that there are so many of them proves my point.
There are almost too many possibilities. Photography is in direct proportion with our time: multiple, faster, instant. Because it is so easy, it will be more difficult.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.