The Photobook Show
Ernst Haas: Abstract
episode 18
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Ernst Haas was an early master of color photography, and in many ways, ahead of his time: the Kodachrome film that he used for most of his work resulted in pictures that for years could not be adequately reproduced in print. “Abstract,” Haas’s most cherished and personal project — originally conceived as an audiovisual slideshow! — is recreated in this book in stunning color and includes work he created over a period of 30 years. As we examine this recently published book, we’ll also look at how other photographers — including Aaron Siskind and Daido Moriyama — interpret abstraction.
Stefan Frank is a photographer and writer, working from Heidelberg, Germany. Way before he came to photography, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Ruhr Universität Bochum and worked as an IT specialist. He studied at Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard in Paris in 2017, before he eventually began studying photography at Ostkreuzschule, Berlin, with Peter Bialobrzeski. He graduated in 2023 with the work Irgendwo (“Anywhere”), a project dealing with politically motivated crime and the terror-spree of the far right in Germany. He has been teaching with StrudelmediaLive since 2020, giving courses on surrealism, poetics of space, gestalt theory for photographers, and more. His work has been exhibited in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
Stefan teaches the poetics of space, nighttime photography, and much more (including presenting The Photobook Show) for StrudelmediaLive.
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