Road 66

By Ernst Haas

Regatta, California

By Ernst Haas, 1957

on composing vs taking photos

“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.”

Ernst Haas

on limitations and photography

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see and what we are.”

Ernst Haas

Lights of New York City

Photo by Ernst Haas, 1970

on seeing and recording

“The camera doesn’t make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But, you have to see.”

Ernst Haas

what is a picture?

“A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?”

Ernst Haas

New York

Photo  by Ernst Haas

 

sportsy fashionable

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Bullfight

Photo by Ernst Haas