Fred Herzog: Modern Color

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Boat Scrapers 1’, 1964: Through colour and form we find scenes that may be overlooked. Developing images 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. I could see that the bright-coloured Kodachrome was the right film for the kind of photography I was doing." — Fred Herzog

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. After the exhibition at the VAG, Herzog’s career took off. A gallery in New York started selling his work and he’s had numerous exhibitions in Europe. Later in the same interview he attempted to clarify his remarks, saying: “I should not have said that”, while also adding, “... there are some doubts in my mind that the real story is being told.” When the interviewer, Marsha Lederman, herself a child of Holocaust survivors, told her family story, he replied: “I stand corrected. I stand corrected.” Lederman noted that the elderly Herzog seemed “troubled”. Die Texte sind informativ, aber nicht gerade inspirierend. Das gelingt dem Fotografen durch sein Werk schon alleine. Vancouver in Kanada ist eine Stadt, die ich auch einmal besucht habe und die ich sehr schätze. Fred Herzogs Fotos sind weder kritisch verurteilend noch verherrlichend. Fred Herzog wins Audain Prize". The Vancouver Sun. 24 November 2001. Archived from the original on 21 March 2017 . Retrieved 21 March 2017.

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Ditmars, Hadani (12 September 2019). "Vancouver Street Photographer Fred Herzog has died, age 88". The Art Newspaper. Archived from the original on 22 September 2019 . Retrieved 10 October 2019. This quote by Canadian Fred Herzog defines the personal photographs he took which have now become iconic: Seine Fotos liegen ganz auf meiner Linie. Der überwiegende Teil sind in Farbe. Ist doch mal ein schwarzweiß-Foto dabei, dann passt es motivisch aber auch so. Fred Herzog: Photographs. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. ISBN 978-1553655589. With essays by Claudia Gochmann, Sarah Milroy, Jeff Wall and Douglas Coupland.

The Vancouver photographs of Fred Herzog are awash with vibrant color. They are complex, mysterious, exuberant, and full of life, much like the city he photographed. Fred Herzog was born in 1930 in Germany, and came to Vancouver in 1953. He was employed as a medical photographer by day, and on evenings and weekends he took his camera to the streets, documenting daily life as he observed it. Focusing his camera on storefronts, neon signs, billboards, cafes and crowds of people, he eloquently depicts the architecture of the street as a framework for human interaction, presenting a view of the city that is both critical and elegiac.The Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition was nothing short of revelatory, not least because digital printing technology had enabled the rich colour tones of Herzog’s original slides to be faithfully reproduced in luminous prints brimful of telling gestures and period detail.

a b c "Archives and Photography Exhibition Review Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs". archivaria.ca. archivaria . Retrieved 9 November 2022. Fred Herzog: Photographs, C/O Berlin". C/O Berlin. Archived from the original on 10 October 2019 . Retrieved 10 October 2019. He was born Ulrich Herzog in Bad Friedrichshall, near Stuttgart, Germany. His father, also called Ulrich, was an engineer, and his mother, Erna, a housewife with a deep love of literature and art. 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.Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs, Vancouver Art Gallery". Vancouver Art Gallery. Archived from the original on 25 September 2018 . Retrieved 25 September 2018. When his Uncle Kurt died, Herzog inherited his large folding plate camera, which he traded in for a more manageable Kodak Retina, teaching himself photography by shooting portraits of his friends as they hiked in the mountains. When he emigrated to Canada in 1952, he took the camera with him and seems to have started shooting almost as soon as he arrived in Toronto. He was encouraged initially by Ferro Shelley Marincowitz, a medical photographer who became his close friend and mentor, the two sharing a flat and a darkroom for a yearbefore Herzog, aged 22, moved to Vancouver. There are some amazing photos in this book along with some that seem pretty mundane. But something that was mundane 60 years ago is still something. They even touched on that in one of the introductions: "...photographs often acquire a degree of authority in posterity that they never quite had when they were contemporary." Fred Herzog: Photographs. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2011. ISBN 9783775728119. Curated by Stephen Waddell and Felix Hoffmann and edited by Hoffmann. Text in English and German. A retrospective exhibition, Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs, was held at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2007 [2] and was the first major recognition of Herzog's body of work. Herzog exhibited his work both in Canada and internationally, including the exhibitions Fred Herzog: Photographs, C/O Berlin, Germany (2010), Fred Herzog: A Retrospective, Equinox Gallery, Vancouver (2012), Eyes Wide Open! 100 Years of Leica Photography, Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany (2015), Photography in Canada, 1960-2000, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2017), and many others. In 2010 Herzog received a Honorary Doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2014 he received the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts. An artist profile on Herzog was featured on the Knowledge Network for the series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II in 2011. In 2014, Herzog's photograph Bogner's Grocery (1960) [3] was released as a limited edition stamp as part of Canada Post's Canadian Photography Series.

As a photographer, Herzog was undoubtedly ahead of his time, his vision honed by his unhurried wanderings through pre-gentrified Vancouver, his skill evolving free from the dictates of commercial attention or pressure. Der in Deutschland geborene, aber seit über 60 Jahren in Kanada lebende Fotograf Fred Herzog ist bemerkenswert. Zwar sind die Fotos teilweise wirklich alt, aber das mindert sie nicht und teilweise ist es eine Zeitreise. 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. 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.”I learned quite a bit about Herzog including why he photographed what he did and why he wasn't attempting to be 'artful' or capturing the 'decisive moment' or going for posterity. Quite a humble person in terms of his photography -- the photographs in this book and other well-known images of his were taken purely as Herzog the amateur photographer (when he was off work) and not as a professional. The ironic thing is that his profession was as a medical photographer and it wasn't until decades later that his personal photography (that which we all see now) began to be seen, quite by accident. His photographs often depict mundane scenes and overlooked corners of the city, from neon-lit shops to passing strangers. However, Herzog had an eye for the quiet drama of these scenes, capturing the life and spirit of the city and its inhabitants. Career Highlights