synopsis
Fred Herzog is today considered a pioneer of colour, a Canadian colleague of Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt or Saul Leiter in the 50s and 60s. In the streets of Vancouver, he worked exclusively with Kodachrome for more than 50 years. This material began to be scanned and archived only 10 years ago. This monograph, produced in collaboration with the photographer and accompanied by a text by David Campany, brings together 230 images in colour but also in black and white, many of which had remained unpublished. It constitutes a unique reference on his work.
technical information
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
2016
320 pages
264 photos
dimensions : 270 x 273 cm
2016
320 pages
264 photos
dimensions : 270 x 273 cm
about Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog was born in Germany in 1930, and immigrated to Vancouver, BC in 1953. Throughout his career he worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film, and only in the past decade did technology allow him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional colour and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. Herzog’s use of colour was unusual in the 1950s and 60s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the “New Colour” photographers of the 1970s.
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Publisher : Hatje Cantz
2016
2016