Fred Herzog

Fred Herzog (born September 21, 1930)[1] is a Canadian photographer. He is known for his photographs of working class people and their connections to the city around them in Vancouver, British Columbia. Herzog is one of the pioneers of artistic color photography.[2] He achieved moderate success earlier in his career, however his first major exhibition was at Vancouver Art Gallery in 2007, after which he produced a number of books.

Herzog worked professionally as a medical photographer.[3] He was the associate director of the UBC Department of Biomedical Communication, and also taught at Simon Fraser University.

Life and work

Herzog was born and grew up in Stuttgart, Germany,[3] but was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombardment of the Second World War. His parents died during the war (of typhoid and cancer),[1] after which he dropped out of school and found work as a seaman on ships. He emigrated to Canada[3] in 1952, living briefly in Toronto and Montreal before moving to Vancouver in 1953. He had taken casual photos since childhood, and began to take photography seriously after moving to Canada.

His personal work focuses primarily on working class people, and their connections to the city around them. He worked with slide film (mostly Kodachrome), which limited his ability to exhibit, and also marginalized him somewhat as an artist in the 1950s and 1960s when most work was in black and white. However, he has latterly been recognized as one of the pioneers of artistic color photography.[3][4][5][6]

Publications

  • Fred Herzog: Vancouver Photographs. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2007. ISBN 9781553652557. Edited by Grant Arnold and Michael Turner.
  • Fred Herzog: Photographs. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2011. ISBN 978-1553655589. With essays by Claudia Gochmann, Sarah Milroy, Jeff Wall and Douglas Coupland.
  • 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.
  • Modern Color. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2017. ISBN 978-3775741811. With essays by David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle.

Exhibitions

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "Shadows On Film: Fred Herzog". Faded and Blurred. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  2. ↑ "Leica: the camera that freed the world – in pictures". The Guardian. 13 July 2017. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-09-25 – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Bicker, Phil. "Vancouver Vanguard: Fred Herzog's Early Color Street Photographs". Time. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  4. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (19 November 2017). "William Eggleston: 'The music's here then it's gone – like a dream'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  5. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (16 December 2012). "The best photography of 2012: Sean O'Hagan's choice". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  6. ↑ O'Hagan, Sean (7 November 2012). "Henri Cartier-Bresson: who can beat the master of monochrome?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  7. ↑ "Vancouver Art Gallery". Vancouver Art Gallery. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  8. ↑ "Canada 150: Fred Herzog, colourful street photographer". Vancouver Sun. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
  9. ↑ "Fred Herzog wins Audain Prize". National Post. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  10. ↑ "Photographer Fred Herzog wins Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts". The Georgia Straight. 10 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
  11. ↑ "Fred Herzog wins Audain Prize". The Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
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