Color Correction

Color Correction gathers color photography Ernst Haas made but never printed or exhibited in his lifetime. It stands apart from the images that built his reputation as the pioneering color photojournalist of the 1950s.

Edited by William A. Ewing, with additional text by Phillip Prodger, the book collects 163 color images shot between 1952 and 1986. Most are street and studio work Haas set aside rather than published; they were found in his archive and appear here for the first time. Steidl's cloth-bound edition was designed by Thomas Lenthal and Mathieu Perroud. Ewing's title answers the reception Haas got in his lifetime: magazines prized his color work for its vibrancy, but curators later dismissed it as too accessible next to the cooler, more conceptual color of William Eggleston, Stephen Shore, and Joel Meyerowitz.

Haas (1921-1986) joined Magnum Photos in 1949. Through Life and Look assignments, and the bestselling 1971 book The Creation, he became one of the most widely published photographers of the twentieth century. He received the Hasselblad Award in 1986, the year he died. Color Correction, published 25 years later, opens the private side of an archive long read only through its public commissions.