David Schonauer
L'Oeil de la Photographie Thursday April 8, 2021
One of the major figures in 20th-century photography, Ernst Haas is a focus of Bonhams New York’s April9 photography sale. “Ernst Haas was absolutely pivotal in reshaping global perceptions of color photography within the world of fine art,” notes Laura Paterson, Bonhams New York head of photographs. Haas was a member of Magnum Photos, joining in 1949 at the invitation of co-founder Robert Capa. (Go here a 2016 PPD closeup series on Haas.) The April 9 sale features 12 images from across his career, notes L’Oeil de la Photographie. Read the full Story >>
LensCulture Friday September 1, 2017
Charles Sheeler was once known
primarily as a painter, while his photography was dismissed as a merely commercial effort. That’s all changed, notes LensCulture, which goes behind the scenes with Karen Haas, curator of the
exhibition “Charles Sheeler from Doylestown to Detroit,” on view at the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston through November 5. Haas had her work cut out for her: The MFA has over 2,500 Sheeler photographs. “He was always looking for a way to boil his subjects down to their most
essential qualities,” says Haas. Read the full Story >>
nofilmschool Tuesday September 18, 2012
Beginning screenwriters often fall short in two areas, says Derek Haas, whose credits include Wanted and 3:10 to Yuma. The first is the Big Idea: “Does this story need to be
told as a movie and will it keep audiences engaged for 90-120 minutes?” Every good screenplay also needs exquisite pacing, he says. NoFilmSchool features a short video in which Haas goes into
enlightening detail about the importance of both aspects of writing, noting that big ideas do not require big budgets. What’s your idea of a big screenplay idea? Share it with the MAP
community. Read the full Story >>
International Photography Hall of Fame Wednesday August 24, 2016
The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum marks its 50th anniversary by inducting eight photographers and “photo visionaries,” including photographers Ernst Haas, Annie
Leibovitz, and Sebastião Salgado. Also inducted were filmmaker Ken Burns, Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Adobe Photoshop creators John Knoll and Thomas Knoll, and musician/photographer/digital-printing
pioneer Graham Nash. Read the full Story >>
USA Today Friday May 11, 2012
Horst Faas, who won his first Pulitzer Prize for covering the Vietnam War and his second for documenting atrocities in Bangladesh, died yesterday in Munich at 79. The head of Associated Press photo
operations in Saigon, Haas was wounded in 1967 but continued his work, recruiting freelancers like Huynh Cong "Nick" Ut, whose picture of a girl fleeing a napalm attack become an icon of the war. In
1997, Faas and photographer Tim Page published the book Requiem, a landmark tribute to the many photographers who died covering the war in Vietnam. Read the full Story >>
ASMP Tuesday November 24, 2020
Ernie Brooks II, famed as an underwaterr photographer, died November 19 at age of 85, notes the ASMP. “Photography was in his blood as the son of the man who created the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and the grandson of a Portuguese woman who was a professional portrait photographer,” notes ASMP. Brooks graduated from his father’s institute and studied with Hans Haas, a pioneer of underwater documentaries. He established the school’s underwater photography courses and was one of its champions during difficult financial times. The school was sold in 1999 and closed in 2016. Read the full Story >>
RESOURCE Wednesday May 15, 2019
Ken Lieberman, a master
printer who over four decades worked with photographers includingIrving Penn, Ernst Haas, Patrick Demarchelier, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Bordnick, Jay Maisel and Ruth Orkin, died in April at age 88. Mary Engel, Ruth Orkin’s daughter, recently
informed PPD of Lieberman’s passing. “I have fond memories of going to see him at the lab, giving him my order and then reminiscing about my mom,” wrote Engel at Facebook. Lieberman, who had lived in Delray Beach, FL, since 2015, was at the center of the photography industry at his New York lab,
noted Resource magazine in 2013. Read the full Story >>
By Eric Meola Monday September 12, 2016
Thirty years have passed since photographer Ernst Haas died on September 12, 1986. Haas was to color photography what Robert Frank was to black and white - a revolutionary, notes photographer Eric
Meola: "Looking at his work," he write, "it is impossible to separate the person, his images and his words. Often called the 'poet' of photography, no other photographer influenced my generation as … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Wednesday December 26, 2012
I heard that you ask'd for something to prove this puzzle the New World,And to define America, her athletic Democracy,Therefore I send you my poems that you behold in them what you wanted.—Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass. In his epic
poem Leaves of Grass, written before the Civil War, Walt Whitman celebrated the vastness and vitality of the young nation … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Wednesday December 28, 2016
This week between Christmas and New Year's Day we are looking back at some of the most-read stories from Pro Photo Daily. Today we feature part 1 of our round-up, cover more recent months. It was a
quiet period -- except for that presidential election thing and the rise of fake news. One of our top posts looked at how photojournalists covered the campaign … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Thursday July 8, 2021
Photo workshops can change the lives of those who attend them. But they can also change the lives of people who teach them. That is the message of the new book "Workshop Stories: Changed by
Photography," which gathers together the recollections of workshop leaders including Sam Abell, John Paul Caponigro, Larry Fink, Kip Brundage, Judy Dater, William Albert Allard, Keith Carter, and
David Burnett, … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday February 18, 2011
Balmy weather brought art lovers out in droves last night, with men in shirtsleeves and women in dresses and bare legs. Here's a view of the scene and picks from this week's DART List, in
geographical order. Photos: Peggy Roalf.
Minor Cropping May Occur: Photographs by Keizo Kitajima, JH Engstrom, Nick Wapplington, Mike Brodie, and Takashi Homma, among others. Lombard Freid Projects, new … Read the full Story >>
By Eric Meola Thursday September 15, 2016
"I believe in the end-success of a man's work...aware of the connection in life between our earth and the cosmos; a person able to understand the mistakes, and to admire the achievements, of other
people," wrote photographer Ernst Haas in 1949. This week we have been paying tribute to Haas, who died 30 years ago, in September 1986. Over the past few months, photographer … Read the full Story >>
By Eric Meola Tuesday September 13, 2016
This week, we are spotlighting the photographer Ernst Haas, who died 30 years ago, in September, 1986. As photographer Eric Meola noted yesterday, "Haas was to color photography what Robert Frank was
to black and white - a revolutionary." As an artist and teacher, Haas influenced a generation of photographers and others in the photo world, and over the past several months Meola has … Read the full Story >>
By Eric Meola Tuesday April 8, 2014
"Photographers began to make statements with photographs the moment silver turned black in the sun. But perhaps never have those statements been as urgent, or visually compelling, as in the work of
Edward Burtynsky, James Balog and Sebastio Salgado, photographers who have created an unflinching record of both the beauty and the death of our planet." So writes the acclaimed photographer Eric
Meola in … Read the full Story >>
By Eric Meola Friday September 16, 2016
"In discussions about Haas there is always a constant - an acknowledged point in the universe where time stops, and beyond which light will not pass. There is an audible drop in the voice, a reverence
to the name 'Ernst,' and it is silly, because if anything, Ernst would be embarrassed and have nothing of it." So writes photographer Eric Meola of the influential … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Monday December 5, 2016
She was not a fashion photographer, but Inge Morath, one of the two first female Magnum photographers, had an eye for style. "Whether photographing festivals or artists' studios, on films sets, the
street, or the fashion runway, what distinguishes Morath's photography is an unerring eye for life's brilliant theatricality," writes Smithsonian American Art Museum curator John P. Jacob in the new
book "Inge Morath: … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Friday February 24, 2017
This weekend, Printed Matter presents the fifth annual LA Art
Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Downtown LA. Free and open to the public, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair is a unique event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs,
periodicals, and zines presented by more than 300 presses, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over 20 countries. Conference sessions include the panel … Read the full Story >>
By David Schonauer Wednesday December 19, 2018
"Martine, I want to come and see your contact sheets." That was what Henri Cartier-Bresson said when he first met Martin Franck in 1966. The two were married in 1970 (despite a 30-year age difference)
and shared a passion for photography. But Franck's own career as a photographer was overshadowed by that of her husband. Now she is the subject of a big retrospective … Read the full Story >>
By Peggy Roalf Tuesday June 26, 2007
Road trips are the stuff of summer, and have been an inspiration for countless photographers since Walker Evans roamed the South in the 1930s. In the 1970s, Stephen Shore criss-crossed the
continent, redefining American culture through his camera's lens. His work from these journeys can be seen in a major retrospective at the International Center of
Photography, and is included in a group … Read the full Story >>
