Fred Herzog: Modern Color

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This quote by Canadian Fred Herzog defines the personal photographs he took which have now become iconic: He often shot people from behind, sometimes, as in a photograph of an older woman and a girl waiting on a sidewalk, dramatically cropping the image so that just their lower bodies are visible. It is the colour tones that entrance. In this instance, the deep red of the woman’s pleated dress is echoed in the girl’s tights and shoes. I have to work fast and on impulse as I walk around the city with my hand-held 35-mm Leica camera. If you don’t trust your instincts, if you don’t trust your first vision, then you lose it. So when there’s action I start shooting right away. I don’t look long.” Herzog told The Sun in 1994.

Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007. ISBN 9781553652557. Edited by Grant Arnold and Michael Turner. Photography in Canada, 1960-2000, National Gallery of Canada". National Gallery of Canada. Archived from the original on 8 September 2018 . Retrieved 10 October 2019.In his work, we’re shown a world we recognise, anachronistic as some of it may be, yet we relate to it. Despite slight shifts in social, cultural and technological parameters, the world now looks much the same as it did in the ’60s and ’70s.

Ulrich “Fred” Herzog, who was born in Germany and died in Canada, was belatedly recognized as one of the pioneers of street photography and mainly of color photography. His first exhibition, at the Vancouver Art Gallery when Herzog was 76, proved to be a real eye-opener, not least because new digital printing technology had made it possible to faithfully reproduce the rich color tones of his original slides: luminous prints full of revealing gestures. and period details. Leica: the camera that freed the world – in pictures". The Guardian. 13 July 2017. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 6 July 2019 . Retrieved 25 September 2018– via www.theguardian.com. One thing that I found interesting to learn from one of the essays is why he chose the cameras that he did but also that nearly every photo he took with people in it was shot from the hip, and he never asked permission. Almost overnight, Herzog went from anonymity to renown, his standing in Vancouver approaching a kind of mythic status particularly among locals who remembered the places and faces he had photographed. “People came to the exhibition and broke into tears,” he later recalled, “because they recognised a city they had forgotten existed.”Fred Herzog: Photographs. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. ISBN 978-1553655589. With essays by Claudia Gochmann, Sarah Milroy, Jeff Wall and Douglas Coupland. Es startet mit einem Selbstportrait 1959. Dann folgen Texte zunächst in Englisch, gemischt mit einigen Fotos. Schließlich viele Fotos. Es sind Alltagsfotos in Kanada die dominieren und sie haben ihre ganz eigene, hohe Qualität, obwohl sie natürlich nicht dramatisch sind. Photographer Fred Herzog wins Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts". The Georgia Straight. 10 April 2014. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017 . Retrieved 21 March 2017. Boat Scrapers 1’, 1964: Through colour and form we find scenes that may be overlooked. Developing images Over the next few decades, Herzog spent countless hours walking the city with his camera, shooting thousands of evocative, often painterly, images of mainly working-class neighbourhoods. Like Leiter, he was alert for moments of stillness amid the bustle of the city – two men sharing a joke on a street – and, like Walker Evans, one of his early influences, drawn to the visual poetry of shop signs and storefronts.