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
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.
A picture can be an answer as well as a question but if you can't answer your question try to question your question... There can be questions without answers but no answers without questions.
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
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.
The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances...a tiny relationship - either a harmony or a disharmony - that creates a picture.
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.
There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.
A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
The camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
Refine your senses through the great masters of music, painting, and poetry.
I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.