Esther Haase
Esther Haase (born February 20, 1966 in Bremen ) is a German photographer .
biography
Haase is the daughter of Fritz Haase , professor (em.) For photography and communication design and Sibylle Haase- Knels, designer and illustrator. She is the oldest of three sisters. Her parents have been running a design studio in Bremen since 1963.
She spent her childhood in Bremen and, as a teenager, played figure skating as a competitive sport. From 1981 she studied dance at the State Academy in Cologne . She worked as a dancer at the Theater am Goetheplatz in Bremen for two years before studying graphic design with a focus on photography at the University of the Arts Bremen until 1993 . In addition to their creative parents, they were particularly influenced by dance and stage experience.
Haase now lives with her two children in Hamburg and temporarily in London.
job
Haase has been working internationally as a freelance photographer since 1993. During your studies, she worked as a trainee in the Art Department of the men Vogue ( Men's Vogue active) in Munich, assisted with various photographers and accompanied productions of your father. The French consumer electronics company Thomson entrusted her with her first own photo production in Paris. In 1998 she traveled to Cuba for Wolfgang Behnken, Stern's art director on behalf of Stern . The photos taken there not only opened the way for Haase to many magazines, but also attracted the attention of various photo galleries. With further trips to Cuba and because of the tango to Argentina, she expanded her photographic oeuvre. This was followed by exhibitions in various galleries a. a. 2005 and 2009 at Camera Work in Hamburg and Berlin. Since then she has been represented by Camera Work .
Haase's work focuses on productions for renowned fashion magazines such as the Italian editions of Vanity Fair and Grazia , the French magazine Madame Figaro , the German Elle or Vogue India , but also for national and international fashion brands such as Victoria's Secret and Guess and Wonderbra . Her work is characterized by glamor, joie de vivre, eroticism and wit. Fellini , Helmut Newton and Peter Lindbergh are among her role models. She is increasingly devoting herself to film productions. We do it again , one of her last films as well as a series of pictures of baroque stagings, were purchased by the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum in Bremen in 2013 .
Again and again it is film TV or stage stars that Haase portrays. She has been accompanying Hannelore Elsner , Iris Berben , Gudrun Landgrebe and Nena for many years . She portrayed Diane Kruger , FC Gundlach , Vivienne Westwood , opera diva Anna Netrebko , Katarina Witt and Angela Merkel , among others . In one of Hildegard Knef's last series of pictures , she showed her empathetic approach to old age.
The topic of age becomes visible in the productions for the annual calendar of the Berlin care service Jahnke. Like a social project, the elderly act together with film and stage stars in role-playing games. Vivienne Westwood made a costume contribution with students in her Berlin fashion class. The work met with a great response in the media. The TV show 37 ° dedicated a contribution to the project, in 2002 works received the Gold award from the Art Directors Club (ADC) Germany, in 2008 they were selected for a Photokina presentation. In 2010 the book Rock'n'Old was published . Another socially committed project: The Uta Melle Project Amazons , a controversial topic about breast amputee women.
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2012: Socialclub Schierke (Munich), Esther Haase
- 2011: PMB Museum (Bremen), Where the journey is going
- 2011: Farbwerke m6 (Hamburg), Collodion
- 2011: Stilwerke (Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf), Amazons
- 2010: Fotografiska (Stockholm), Fashion
- 2009: Interconti (Düsseldorf) Vertical Gallery
- 2009: Camera Work (Berlin) Photographs
- 2008: Photokina (Cologne), Rare Moments of Authenticity
- 2007: Galerie Bernheimer (Munich), muses, mothers, models
- 2007: Quartier 206 (Berlin), photographs
- 2007: Samuelis Baumgarte (Bielefeld), photographs
- 2006: Bonni Benrubi (New York), Sexy Book
- 2005: Wouter van Leeuwen (Amsterdam) photographs
- 2005: Camera Work (Hamburg), Cuba
- 2005: Museum for Work (Hamburg), sex work
- 2004: Photomonth (London), Sexy Moments
- 2003: Camera Work (Berlin), photographs
- 2003: ArtCentre (Plano, Texas), In Their Mothers' Eyes
- 2002: The Loading Bay Gallery (London), Emotion
- 2002: Museum of Arts and Crafts (Hamburg), St. Pauli Myth
- 2000: Glasshouse Gallery (London), Fashion in Motion
- 2000: Museum of Arts and Crafts (Hamburg), fashion? Body ? Fashion.
Book publications
- Esther's World , Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2017
- together with Beate Wedekind , Sophie Albers, Jackie Hardt; Edited by Nadine Barth: Amazons , Kehrer, 2011.
- Rock'n Old , foreword by Alexa Hennig von Lange , Kehrer, 2010.
- Photographs 1997–2006 , Hachmannedition, 2007.
- Sexy Book , Scalo, 2006
- Fashion in Motion , Ed. Wolfgang Behnken, Edition Stemmle, 2000.
Prizes and awards
- 1992: 1st prize AGFA photo competition
- 1992: 1st prize FUJI / AWI / Profi-Foto-Award
- 1994: Graphis Photo Award '94
- 1997: Creativity 26 Award
- 1997: Kodak Pixel Award
- 1997: 2nd prize Motorfocus
- 1998: Reinhart Wolf Award
- 1999: Reinhart Wolf Award
- 1999: Art Directors Club (ADC) Award Bronze
- 1999: Gold for photography in Great Britain for the Marlboro campaign
- 2000: ADC Award Bronze
- 2001: ADC Award Bronze
- 2001: Book cooperation with Iris Berben I will get older later
- 2002: ADC Award Gold
- 2002: Nomination at the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE)
- 2003: BFF Merit Award
- 2003: Red Dot: Best of the Best Design Award
- 2005: ADC Merit Award, New York
- 2009: Award International Kodak Photo Calendar Award and Award of
- 2010: BFF Award Merit
- 2011: Award ADC for Project Amazonen
- 2011: Myself love award for Amazons in the Think & Feel category
- 2012: Award ADC: Where is the journey going? Ali and Marlene in the Roseliushaus
Web links
- Literature by and about Esther Haase in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. http://estherhaase.com/about-me/#/
- ↑ http://camerawork.de/fileadmin/user_upload/images/PDFs/Haase_Schapowalow.pdf
- ↑ cf. Archive link ( memento of the original from August 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ cf. u. a. http://www.stern.de/fotografie/uta-melle-und-ihr-projekt-amazonen-im-krieg-gegen-den-krebs-1671481.html
- ↑ "SexyBook is an impressive collection", so the summary of the positive review of the book by C. Perring, in: Metapsychology Online Reviews 2006 (Volume 10, Issue 32), see: http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/ view_doc.php? type = book & id = 3242 & cn = 458
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haase, Esther |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 20, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |