Super RARE! Ernst HAAS - New York City, 1952, Old Authentic Drawing Offset Print

Description: Sale!!! Mega RARE! Unique!!! Ernst HAAS - Third Avenue El, New York, 1952 Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset print Beautiful Famous photo! Iconic!!! Size: 20.3 cm x 13.4 cm This is a print run controlled and validated on press by the client that the printer had archived as a color reference model and laminated to a support so that it can be preserved over time. A wonderful testimony to traditional art printing which unfortunately has completely disappeared today. Remarkable print, close to a photograph, with beautiful shine, very bright and dense colors. Its rendering, contrast, its brightness, as well as its sharpness with sharp details, are absolutely magnificent. Print made in 2000 by a former art printer Archival model Printer four-color printing enhanced with a glossy varnish This previously unpublished Validation Print was found deep in an assembly workshop in the archives of a former art printing house, carefully preserved flat and protected from light. Although it is old with its 24 years of age, it remains in a good state of conservation. Some marks and traces of dirt on the back due to the printer's handling. However, the front is intact, in excellent condition and of extraordinary shine. This old print comes from a first printing limited to a few copies in different tones, the customer selected one that he approved and validated as a “good to print” proof. It was kept by the printer and served as a color model for setting on the machine during reprints. When everything was compliant, the client signed the print which then became contractual, the client's approval committed the printer to obtaining an identical result for all the prints he had to produce. In this photograph taken in 1952 in New York, he obtains two images in a single frame with the reflection, while adding the light and shadows. In the Big Apple, he took thousands of photographs, testing all the possible applications of color photography, very often using his "wire" technique, moving at the same speed as what he photographed, reorganizing reality thanks to to a subtle balance, without ever distorting it but giving it a new representation, performs plays of reflections with graphic repetition through movement, and unusual framing, through which he finds his philosophy of the true photographer, creating a universe modern in the photographic world. For him, a photo is enough to speak for itself, it consists of not intervening and isolating certain elements from the context in order to direct the viewer's eye directly towards the message he wishes to convey, by offering a essentially graphic image. In this magical city, as he calls it, the one where he found a second life and a new source of inspiration, a city that never sleeps, producing compositions off the beaten track, he creates images of new energy -yorkaise, cars with their speeds, in which he does not hesitate to capture at the same time the color, the graphics, and the dynamism, his photography is at the center of his concerns, to go beyond the static image , it inserts both time and space without freezing them. “I’m not interested in photographing new things, I’m looking to see things in a new light. In this context, I am a photographer who has the problems of a painter, and the desire to discover the limits of the camera in order to overcome them. » Ernst Haas He brings together and composes in the space of an instant, incorporating the elements, light and colors, an image as if painted, he has the power to use the camera and the lens like a brush, he is a chromatic conjurer where urban life and silence settle in and come together wonderfully within his frame. His exploration of color, his genius in terms of style, his compositions and the use of natural light bear witness to his unique spirit, a perfect maturity that he constantly seeks. He makes color itself the subject of his work. No photographer works so successfully at expressing the pure, physical joy of seeing. “It’s just you and your camera. The limits of your photography are within you, for what we see is what we are. » Ernst Haas American at heart, Haas' priority, is this country which has adopted it and is passionate about the urban world. His color photographs of the city such as those of New York or others, such as London and Paris, are always photogenic and mark his style, with his best companion, a Kodachrome film in his case, he strives to always take a look sharpened in a simple place giving dazzling, subtle and magical images. He experiments with all techniques, in order to give a reading of his adopted city with expressionist accents, sometimes tending towards abstraction. He blurs the lines, through glasses, looks for games of mirrors and light where everything is printed, where the limits between the outside and the inside overlap. Initially, the driving elements for the photographer were black and white, rain, night, reflections, artistic blur which he gradually installed in his work and later developed as here with color. Walking the sidewalks of New York that he loves so much, it is in these places that he constantly finds the subject of a good photograph. Photographing is for him a unique way of bringing forth the conditions of wonder. In love with beauty, he constructs a new genre and produces work which in photography circles was completely new at the time. He is considered one of the most important photographers of the second part of the 20th century, being the precursor of color photography. Among all the subjects he was given to photograph, there is one that Ernst Haas is particularly fond of, the city of New York. For almost 40 years he photographed this city that he dreamed of while he was was still just a kid in Austria. For his first series of black and white photographs of New York, it was the architectural complexity and the abstract lines of the landscapes which inspired him, then later it was the movement and the bright colors of the city which gave him the wanted to take his very first series of color photographs on this Kodachrome film. “The best wide angle lens is two steps back. » Ernst Haas His big business is color, quite solitarily because at the dawn of the second half of the 20th century, color photography still suffered from a certain ostracism, he devoted himself to studies on movement in color and introduced this color into the world of documentary images. To this day, the work of Ernst Haas, although extremely widely distributed during his lifetime, remains partially unknown, undoubtedly suffering from too close proximity to the era in which it was born. But today his avant-garde photographs are recognized and have become true symbols. He expresses the desire to use photography as a universal language and his research on color photography makes him one of the pioneers alongside William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Saul Leiter. His work was immensely successful and in the 1960s and 70s he became a model for the community of amateur photographers, being considered today as the “father of color photography”. “The camera doesn’t make a difference. All can record what you see, but, you must see. » Ernst Haas Ernst Haas (1921-1986) Austrian photographer, born in Vienna where he studied medicine and then painting, he entered the Institute of Graphic Arts which he had to leave because of his Jewish origins. At the beginning of the 1940s he turned to photography and then to photojournalism after the war. In 1946, he worked in Switzerland for the magazine “DU” with Alfred Kubler, it was there that he met Werner Bischof who became his friend. In 1947 a report on the return of prisoners of war made him famous. Immediately published in major international magazines, his work as a young beginner led Ernst Haas to be contacted by Robert Capa who suggested, in 1950, that he join the Magnum agency which he had just founded with Cartier-Bresson, David Seymour and George Rodger, he took over as president in 1959. With his Swiss friend Werner Bischof, they both became, at less than thirty years old, the first two photographers co-opted by the founders of Magnum. In 1951 he moved to New York and took his first color photos in the Mexican desert. This is the beginning of his personal research into the use of color in photography. He is the first and only photographer at Magnum to work in color. He began a long independent collaboration with LIFE magazine, of which he gradually became the star photographer, but also collaborated with Vogue, Esquire and Look magazines. His first work with color was shocking and revolutionary at the time, in 1953 LIFE magazine devoted 24 pages to it, in 2 consecutive issues. The original article was titled “Images of a magic city”. Haas then multiplied reports for the biggest magazines, published books and worked on numerous advertising campaigns. It is with these very colorful photographs that his name is most often associated. Some critics then consider his work to be “too commercial”. But alongside these commissioned works, he pursues a personal work with images that are more ambiguous, more marginal, more complex, more free. He was the first photographer to have a “one man show” in color at the MoMA in New York in 1962 with Edward Steichen and John Szarkowski as curators. Benefiting from international recognition, Ernst Haas created his own studio in New York and multiplied commissioned work for the international press, cinema, sport, advertising and cities such as Paris and Venice. He received several awards. From 1964, he worked for cinema and TV (The art of seeing). In 1971 his work “The Creation” was published, which sold more than 350,000 copies. American par excellence, his work, “In America” is a symphony to the imagination of the great outdoors and the founding myths of deep America. « Une image est l’expression d’une impression. » Ernst Haas Sale as is, no return. 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Location: New York, New York

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