“We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation.”
— Ernst Haas
“The best pictures differentiate themselves by nuances…a tiny relationship – either a harmony or a disharmony – that creates a picture.”
— Ernst Haas
“The most important lens you have is your legs.”
— Ernst Haas
“Don’t park… Arrival is the death of inspiration.”
— Ernst Haas
“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
— Ernst Haas
“Only a vision – that is what one must have.”
— Ernst Haas
“In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.”
— Ernst Haas
“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…”
— Ernst Haas
Thank you! I love how colourful and striking Haas’ images are. 🙂
Haas is one of the very best photographers to have ever worked colour. Curiously, Leiter seems to garner more attention – but then he has the glow of recent rediscovery. Haas’s photographs to me are like neon symbols in blazing colour, pointing to beauty in the mundane. Great post, Rhyl.
Thanks, Pete! Yes, it’s interesting that you mention Leiter, since there’s a certain amoung of crossover in their choice of style and subject matter. I hadn’t realised that Leiter was such a recent discovery! That would probably account for it…
Very nicely presented. Thank you for this post.