Photographers research-Ernst Haas

Ernst Haas

Ernst is considered as one of the pioneers of colour photography, which has lead him to be acclaimed as one of the most influential photographers and celebrated of the 20th century. When Ernst was  photographing in black and white in New Mexico he wanted to experience colour photography, however at the time there was no colour photography only coloured photographs. Before experimenting with colour photography Ernst was more active in photojournalism, so his photography was more situated around war. However with the emergence of colour photography, Ernst became more interested in the super-reality of dreams. To achieve photographs in this sense he gave commonplace objects and silhouettes a new meaning. For example a photo of a  reflection, brought out the hidden depths that underly in a urban storefront window. (Like the last there photos below). The reason why i decided to research Ernst Haas' work was because i had previously studied his work of photojournalism in English, so i thought his work in urban areas that featured reflections would be relevant to what i am capturing in my photography. After looking at Ernst's work i have become influenced  with the idea of using the reflections in building windows to capture other buildings, or to just add more layers o the photos. I think that Ernst has along with Alexander Rodchenko will be my main photographers for influence due to their photographic techniques, like Alexanders angles and perspectives and the idea of reflections from Ernst.

Influence-Ernst Haas has had great influence on my work, especially photographic techniques. I think that after researching Ernst i was informed mostly on the best way to frame a photo for an unexpected perspective and i discovered using the reflections of other buildings to make to the photo to more unique and unexpected. Due to Ernst shooting a lot in New York, i think that was why i was able to achieve photos of similar styles because i shot in London. So due to the buildings being similar, tall, i was able to take photos with the same perspectives for example low angles looking up towards the buildings. After researching Ernsts' work i realised that reflections were a common occurrence within my work due to the majority of the buildings in London having a lot of glass. So i have tried to incorporate reflections of buildings into my photos as much as possible, at least once a shoot.