Ernst Haas
[Photographer, b. 1921, Vienna, Austria, d. 1986, New York City.]
Women held bleached-out photographs in the air to the new arrivals. “Do you know him? Have you seen my son?” They called out the names of their men. Children with pictures of fathers they had never seen compared the photographs with the faces of the arrivals. It was almost too much. I staggered home as if in a trance.
(On photographing the return of WWII prisoners from the camps in eastern Europe.) 
