Ernst Haas: Colour Correction, Atlas Gallery - review - Arts

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These gorgeous, rarely seen prints represent his explorations of movement, light, shadows and reflections, and how blurred colours frequently transformed a scene from photographic to painterly. In 1962, he was the first photographer to show in colour at MOMA, New York.

Haas's subjects were often set in American streets - especially in New York, but also nocturnal Vegas and gaudy Tokyo. Even the most literal situations veer towards abstraction. But regardless of subject, colour catches the eye: the red of a woman's dress standing out among crowds (1953) is a familiar signature.

The new Kodachrome film and dye transfer printing enabled Haas to perfect the luscious saturated colours that fill the gallery. The picture of torn posters (1972) centres on a suspicious eye peering through a patchwork of colour. Haas wrote that a colour photograph speaks for itself: "less prose, more poetry".

To October 22. atlasgallery.com 020 7224 4192. Reprint of the book Color Correction by Ernst Haas (steidlville.com)

Ernst Haas: Colour Correction
Atlas Gallery
W1