Noted Vancouver photographer Fred Herzog dies at age 88
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Legendary Vancouver photographer Fred Herzog has died. He was 88.
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Noted Vancouver photographer Fred Herzog dies at age 88 | Vancouver Sun
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Fred Herzog, a Pioneer of Color Photography, Dies at 88
Juxtapoz Magazine – Fred Herzog, a Pioneer of Color Photography, Dies at 88
The world has lost another photography great this week. Fred Herzog, an early pioneer of color and street photography, died in Vancouver on Monday at…
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The world has lost another photography great this week. Fred Herzog, an early pioneer of color and street photography, died in Vancouver on Monday at age 88. Herzog started photographing in and around Vancouver in 1953, making images awash with vibrant color – complex, mysterious, exuberant, and full of life, much like the city he photographed. As David Campany noted in his introduction to the book Modern Color, Herzog “observed the grain of that city as it lived, worked, played, and changed . . . . Few other bodies of photography in the history of the medium have come close to the richness of Herzogs extended city portrait.”
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The Odd, Otherwordly Glow of Fred Herzog’s Photography – The New York Times
The Odd, Otherwordly Glow of Fred Herzog’s Photography
Revisiting a master of Kodachrome.
Just down the road from where I live, a store is trying out a new retail marriage: pricey eyewear and photography books. Its patron saint ought to be Ralph Eugene Meatyard, who was an optician and a photographer, but his books, as far as I could make out, were nowhere to be seen. The volume in the window that caught my eye — possibly because the cover image was of a (barber)shop window — was Fred Herzog’s “Modern Color.” Herzog’s work offers the latest instance of a form of eye exam that has enjoyed increasing visibility in the last several years.
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Vancouver Vanguard: Fred Herzog’s Early Color Street Photographs
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In 1953, decades before William Eggleston and Stephen Shore established color photography as a serious medium for art photography, Fred Herzog shot his first roll of color film.
His wonderful and remarkable street pictures are the subject of a new monograph called Fred Herzog Photographs, published this month by Douglas and McIntyre.
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Fred Herzog: Photographs
Fred Herzog purchased his first camera in 1950 and began working in color to do what he describes as “intimate journalism in a city environment. They call that street photography now…. I would find certain street corners where people gathered, or other public spaces, places I felt would have an atmosphere that suited anybody.
