Ferenc Haár was a photographer, whose life can be easily reconstructed from pieces of his work. His first book, titled The Road to East, shows all the way where he had been passing: starting from Transylvania, crossing Budapest and Paris, finally arriving in Japan. He graduated in 1927 at National Applied Art College as Gyula Kaesz’s student.

At the beginning of his career he was an interior-decorator and he was dealing with advert-graphics and poster-design. He got involved in the Working group led by Lajos Kassák and started to take high-quality photos. He became a committed representative of left-wing ideas and social photography. Soon he became a professional photographer; he took building-photos for Farkas Molnár and interior-photos for Lajos Kozma. Starting from 1934 he was manager of Olga Máté’s Studio in Veres Pálné Street, Budapest. When Ms. Máté retired, her studio was handed over by the young man and he ran it under the name „Studio Haár”. Mainly he was engaged with taking interior and tourism advertising photos. In 1938 he moved to Paris and opened a fashion-, illustration- and portrait-studio. In 1940 he travelled to Japan and established a studio in Tokyo. In 1956 he started third time a new life, this time in Chicago. Since 1960 until his death he lived in Hawaii. He was shooting documentaries, illustrating books and he was a photography- tutor at Hawaii University. The monograph shows early social photos from his time spent in Hungary and not well-known building- and advert-photos, which were made under the influence of Bauhaus.