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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Haas, Ernst
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| Publisher: |
Steidl
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| Date: |
05/26/2015
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| Binding: |
Hardcover
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| Condition: |
NEW
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This book considers the film stills of Ernst Haas (1921-86), one of the most accomplished photographers of the 20th century, transgressing the borders between still photography and the moving image. Haas worked with a variety of eminent directors--from Vittorio de Sica to John Huston, Gene Kelly and Michael Cimino--and depicted cinema genres from suspense (
The Third Man, The Train) to the Western (
The Oregon Trail, Little Big Man), and from comedy (
Miracle in Milan, Love and Death) to musicals (
West Side Story, Hello Dolly). Haas inscribed a temporal, filmic dimension into his stills which, when viewed in a sequence, generate movement and narrative. So accomplished was his mastery of color, light and motion that Haas was frequently asked to photograph large group actions--from the battle scenes of
The Charge of the Light Brigade and the dances of
West Side Story to the ski slopes of
Downhill Racer.
On Set elucidates a novel perspective on the sets and the stars Haas photographed, and reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of his oeuvre.
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