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
Learn by doing or even better unlearn by doing. The opposite of what you learned.
I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.
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.
The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
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.
Beware of too much taste as it leads to sterility.
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.
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.
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.
My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
The best zoom lens is your legs.