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TV And Shadows, a television set by a window, California, circa 1975. ‘I never really wanted to be a photographer. It slowly grew out of the compromise of a boy who desired to combine two goals – explorer or painter,’ Haas said
Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
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Rock Mountain, August 1977, Spider Rock in the Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, casts its shadow over the strata beneath. ‘I wanted to travel, see and experience. What better profession could there be than the one of a photographer, almost a painter in a hurry, overwhelmed by too many constantly changing impressions?’
Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
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Route 66 Albuquerque, traffic in the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico, after a heavy downpour. ‘All my inspirational influences came much more from all the arts than from photo magazines’
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Seattle Settlement, a little girl in Native American dress stands in front of a Plymouth Valiant and a teepee in Seattle, Washington state, 1975. ‘Every one of us wants to take beautiful, striking, extraordinary pictures. Every one of us is struggling with his own style’
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Buffalo Winter 1966, a buffalo seeks shelter under trees during a snowstorm in Yellowstone national park. ‘A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?’
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Railroad Sky, low-angle sunlight reflected off railroad tracks, New Mexico, circa 1960. ‘Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view’
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Flood Lands, 1963: a part of Monument Valley, a Navajo reservation. ‘Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken’
Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
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Free Spirits, 1978, wild horses gallop across countryside in a blur of speed. ‘There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are’
Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
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Snail’s Pace, 1960, a house being transported on a trailer along a road in Nevada. ‘Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature’
Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
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Western Landscape, an aerial view of cloud and rock formations, western USA, circa 1960. ‘Important is the end result of your work: the opus. Therefore, I want to be remembered much more by a total vision than a few perfect single pictures’
Photograph: Ernst Haas/Getty Images
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