A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.
Ernst HaasYou see what you think, you see what you feel, you are what you see If with the camera you can make others see it - that is photography.
Ernst HaasThe camera only facilitates the taking. The photographer must do the giving in order to transform and transcend ordinary reality. The problem is to transform without deforming. He must gain intensity in form and content by bringing a subjective order into an objective chaos.
Ernst Haasin the smallest cells are reflections of the largest. And in photography, through an interplay of scales, a whole universe within a universe can be revealed.
Ernst Haas