HAAS, Ernst

About  Austrian photographer, Ernst HAAS (1921-1986)

Ernst HAAS is acclaimed as one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century and considered one of the pioneers of color photography. He took up photography after the war. His early work on Austrian returning prisoners of war brought him to the attention of LIFE magazine. At the invitation of Robert CAPA, he joined Magnum in 1949, developing close associations with Robert CAPA, Henri CARTIER-BRESSON, and Werner BISCHOF. He moved to the USA in 1951 and  become the premier color photographer of the 1950s. In 1953 LIFE magazine published his groundbreaking 24-page color photo essay on New York City. In 1962 a retrospective of his work was the first color photography exhibition held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Ernst HAAS died in 1986 in New York.

Photo books by, on the work of and with works by Ernst HAAS

• 'The Creation' (1971); 'In America' (1975); 'In Germany' (1976); 'Himalayan Pilgrimage' (1978); 'Color Photography' (1989); 'Ernst Haas in Black and White' (1992); 'Color Correction' (2011); 'On Set / Cinema' (2015); 'New York in Color. 1952-1962 (2020); 'Abstrakt' (2022); 'The American West' (2022)