“我绝大多数作品都以人为中心——生活中最具创造力的主题，我总是被人们的存在与成就所吸引，无论善恶，我关注的是人们本身。” —— Erich Hartmann
Erich Hartmann（埃里希 哈特曼）1922年出生于德国慕尼黑，16岁时因躲避纳粹随全家搬到纽约，作为家中唯一一个懂得英语的成员，他白天在纺织厂工作，晚上则去Siena College参加夜大。不久，Hartmann应征入伍，先后前往英国、法国、比利时以及德国等国，战争结束后，他回到纽约市，担任一个肖像摄影师的摄影助理，没有多久就自己抓起相机，成为一名自由摄影师。
Hartmann最初获得的关注缘自其在50年代为财富杂志拍摄的作品，随后一系列关注科技、工业以及建筑行业的摄影故事让人们大为惊叹，其中包括为IBM拍摄的“Shapes of Sound”等专题，Hartmann将看似枯燥的科技主题拍摄得极具诗意，很多作品即便在现在看来也让人难以相信是“电子实验室”中的画面。
除了为杂志供稿，Hartmann还一直在拍摄一些极具文学氛围的个人摄影项目，例如莎士比亚的英国、乔伊斯的都柏林、托马斯哈代（Thomas Hardy）的艾塞克斯等。除此之外，Hartmann还对抽象的展现形式情有独钟，例如滴入清水中的墨汁、激光照射的图形以及各种科技元件构成的小场景。晚年，Hartmann拍摄了以纳粹集中营为主题的《In the Camps》，在他去世前，还在为“Music Everywhere”拍摄素材。
Erich Harmann1952年加入玛格南，曾经是玛格南图片社多年的董事会成员，并在1985年担任玛格南主席。
Erich Hartmann 1999年2月4日逝世于纽约的家中。
关于《Where I Was》
“Where I Was”（我曾经在那里）是Erich Harmann个人作品的精选集，以观察细腻的黑白照片记述了一个摄影记者在忙碌工作之余的生活轨迹：曾经看到的画面，曾经逗留的城市，以及由这些经历延伸而出的感悟。
Erich Alfred "Bubi" Hartmann (19 April 1922 – 20 September 1993), also nicknamed "Bubi" by his comrades and "The Black Devil" by his Soviet enemies, was a German World War II fighter pilot and is the highest scoring fighter ace in the history of Aerial warfare. He claimed 352 aerial victories (of which 345 were won against the Soviet Air Force, and 260 of which were fighters) in 1,404 combat missions. He engaged in aerial combat 825 times while serving with the Luftwaffe. During the course of his career, Hartmann was forced to crash land his damaged fighter 14 times. This was due to damage received from parts of enemy aircraft he had just shot down, or mechanical failure. Hartmann claimed never to have been shot down or forced to land due to fire from enemy aircraft.
Hartmann, a pre-war glider pilot, joined the Luftwaffe in 1940 and completed his fighter pilot training in 1942. He was posted to Jagdgeschwader 52 (JG 52) on the Eastern front and was fortunate to be placed under the supervision of some of the Luftwaffe's most experienced fighter pilots. Under their guidance Hartmann steadily developed his tactics which would earn him the coveted Ritterkreuz mit Eichenlaub, Schwertern und Brillianten (Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds) on 25 August 1944 for claiming 301 aerial victories.
He scored his 352nd and last aerial victory on 8 May 1945. He and the remainder of JG 52 surrendered to United States Army forces and were turned over to the Red Army. In an attempt to pressure him into service with the Soviet friendly East German Volksarmee, he was convicted of false/unjustifiable War Crimes, a conviction posthumously voided by a Russian court as a malicious prosecution. Hartmann was sentenced to 25 years of hard labour, and spent 10 years in various Soviet prison camps and gulags until he was released in 1955. In 1956, Hartmann joined the newly established West German Luftwaffe and became the first Geschwaderkommodore of Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen". Hartmann resigned early from the Bundeswehr in 1970, largely due to his opposition to the F-104 Starfighter deployment in the Bundesluftwaffe and the resulting clashes with his superiors over this issue. Erich Hartmann died in 1993.
