Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas was born March 2, 1921 in Vienna, Austria and died September 12, 1986 in New York City. Photographer and photojournalist who was influential for his innovations in colour photography, using Kodak Kodachrome films. His best photographs include experimentations in abstract light and form. He received the Hasselblad Award in 1986. Haas was a first member of the legendary Magnum Photo agency. Besides film stills he was a long time photographer for the well-known advertising campaign for Marlboro cigarettes.

Quotations

• A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?
• I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
• There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
• 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.

Notable Photographs

• Red Rose, 1970.
• London, 1951.

Books by Ernst Haas

• The Creation, 1971.
• In America, 1975.
• Deutschland, 1977.
• Himalayan Pilgramage, 1978.

External link

• Ernst Haas Studio