Ernst Haas – Cinéma
(French edition)
Ce livre présente les photographies de plateau d’Ernst Haas, un des photographes les plus célèbres du vingtième siècle. Dans ces photographies, il transgresse les frontières entre la photographie et le cinéma. Haas travaillât avec des metteurs en scène différents dont Vittorio de Sica, John Houston, Gene Kelly et Michael Cimino, en couvrant tous les genres, du suspense (Le troisième homme ; Le Train) au western (Les Comanches passent à l’attaque ; Little Big Man ; Les Désaxés), la comédie (Miracle à Milan ; Guerre et Amour) et la comédie musicale (West Side Story ; Hello Dolly!).
Ce livre propose une vision inattendue des plateaux et des stars d’Hollywood. La photographie de plateau existe depuis les débuts du cinéma, elle consiste à prendre à l’aide d’un appareil photo des vues fixes propres à constituer un matériel publicitaire pour le film. Mais l’ambition de Haas était d’inscrire une dimension temporelle dans ses images, d’imposer ses principes sur les photographies de plateau qui, vues l’une après l’autre, génèrent du mouvement et une narration.
ENGLISH:
This book considers the film stills of Ernst Haas, one of the most accomplished photographers of the twentieth 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, 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 stars Haas photographed, and reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of his oeuvre.
Ce livre propose une vision inattendue des plateaux et des stars d’Hollywood. La photographie de plateau existe depuis les débuts du cinéma, elle consiste à prendre à l’aide d’un appareil photo des vues fixes propres à constituer un matériel publicitaire pour le film. Mais l’ambition de Haas était d’inscrire une dimension temporelle dans ses images, d’imposer ses principes sur les photographies de plateau qui, vues l’une après l’autre, génèrent du mouvement et une narration.
ENGLISH:
This book considers the film stills of Ernst Haas, one of the most accomplished photographers of the twentieth 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, 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 stars Haas photographed, and reveals a little-known but crucial dimension of his oeuvre.
| Editor | John P. Jacob |
| Publisher | Steidl |
| Year | 2014 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | French |
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| ISBN | 978-3-86930-703-9 |
| Contributors | John P. Jakob, Walter Moser |
| Article ID | art-15689 |
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