Haar, Francis Haar. A Lifetime of Images SIGNIERT WIDMUNGSEXEMPLAR - USA -HAWAII

Haar, Tom (Ed.).
Francis Haar. A lifetime of images. Foreword by James Michener.
Honolulu, Univeristy of Hawaii Press (2001). 4°. 149 S. mit zahlr. Abb.
OLn. mit illustr. OU.

Erste Ausgabe. – Mit eigenhändiger
Widmung des Herausgebers Tom Haar. – „Francis Haar (1908-1997) practiced
his art of photography and filmmaking in three distinctly different
worlds. He started his first studio in his native Budapest; later he
moved to Paris and from there he was invited to Japan. After twenty
years working in the Orient – interrupted by three years of activity in
Chicago – he settled in Honolulu in 1960. He brought with him from these
previous experiences priceless riches and memories, reflected in all of
his contemporary work.″He emerged from the same artistic and cultural
milieu which nurtured Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Gyorgy Kepes, with whom he
enjoyed a personal and artistic friendship. As with so many Hungarians,
he became fluent and expert in the ‚Language of Vision‘ and enthralled
with the ‚Vision of Motion.‘ When expressing himself verbally, his
Hungarian accent is unmitigated, but when speaking visually, in
photography or in cinematography, his message resonates with overtones
from Japan and reverberates with the cosmopolitan sophistication of
European and American big-city environments. Like other sensitive and
receptive newcomers to Hawaii, he became deeply attracted to the study
of Hawaiian culture“ (Univeristy of Hawaii Press). – Tadellos.