Fred herzog

Fred Herzog was born in September 21, 1930 Stuttgart, Germany and then later moved to Vancouver, Canada. Initially he started as a medical photographer in the department of Bio-medical Communication and was taught at the Simon Fraser University.

Fred Herzog chose Kodachrome "to show the world the way it is". His photos of Vancouver are sublime.

Bargain Shop, 1962 - Fred Herzog

Fred Herzog on Instagram: “Fred Herzog, Main Barber from Sidewalk, 1968.”

Thanks to “New Colour” luminaries like William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, it’s hard to imagine that there was once a time when color photography was sneered at in the art world. In those early days of the medium, Fred Herzog, whose work we spotted…

One of the things that strikes a viewer almost immediately when presented with an array of Fred Herzog’s photographs is the pop of “Kodachrome red” that appears in almost every image.

Revisiting a master of Kodachrome.

The German-born artist’s Kodachrome images captured the colour of the city’s streets.

Fred Herzog was born in Germany in 1930 and immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, in 1953. Herzog’s use of colour film in the 1950s and ’60s was revolutionary, coming long before colour photography came to be regarded as a serious medium for art or documentary photography. He is now being reconsidered in the history of street photography in relation to Saul Leiter, Helen Levitt, Ernst Haas, …