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 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.
A picture is the expression of an impression
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
We all would love sometimes to be free from our own knowledge. It is even the most difficult to unlearn - as the most important problems are.
A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
I have always felt better taking a risk than an easier route for what I believe in.
Beware of direct inspiration. It leads too quickly to repetitions of what inspired you.
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.