Photographer Ernst Haas was first published in LIFE, documenting prisoners of war after World War II. Working with legendary photographers Robert Capa and Henry Cartier-Bresson, Haas became one of the premier experimental photographers of the 1950s. In photo book On Set, Haas’ work with directors like Gene Kelly and Michael Cimino is distilled into a series of iconic film stills. See a selection of them below.
Gregory Peck and Chuck Connors in Big Country [1958] (Ernst Haas, On Set, Published by Steidl) Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer in West Side Story [1961] (Ernst Haas, On Set, Published by Steidl) Orson Welles in The Third Man [1949] (Ernst Haas, On Set, Published by Steidl)

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