ERNST HAAS: NEW YORK IN COLOUR, 1952-1962
When Ernst Haas moved from Vienna to New York City in 1951, he left behind a war-torn continent and a career producing black-and-white images. The city inspired some amazing images which soon captured the attention of LIFE magazine, which in 1953 published his groundbreaking 24-page colour photo essay on New York City. This was the first time such a large colour photo feature was published by LIFE.
The recently released “New York in Colour 1952-1962” is first book on Haas’s work dedicated to both his classic and newly discovered New York City colour photographs of the 1950s and 60s.
For Haas, the new medium of colour photography was the only way to capture a city pulsing with energy and humanity. These images demonstrate Haas’s tremendous virtuosity and confidence with Kodachrome film and the technical challenges of colour printing. Unparalleled in their depth and richness of colour, brimming with lyricism and dramatic tension, these images reveal a photographer at the height of his career.
Ernst Haas’s colour works reveal the photographer’s remarkable genius and remind us on every page why we love New York.
Handball, Central Park, NY 197 Reflection, Revolving Door, NY 1960
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