Fred Herzog: Black and White

Fred Herzog: Black and White
Category: Photographer Monographs & Art Books
Author: Fred Herzog, Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Publication Date: 2022
Print Length: 128 pages
Language: English
Price: paid paid paid

Flaneur with a camera: Herzog’s melancholy early work is a love letter to a bygone Vancouver.

Fred Herzog roamed the streets of Vancouver to create a portrait of his adopted hometown in chance scenarios and spontaneous acts of perception. Today his work is among the most important examples of early color photography. But Herzog did not decide to work almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide color film until the late 1950s. Fred Herzog: Black and White is the first appreciation of a lesser-known facet of the photographer's work. Complementing the landmark publication of Modern Color in 2017, the volume brings together his sumptuous arrangements of light and shadow, and moments of life outside the city. The early black-and-white photographs evoke a sense of melancholy, not nostalgia, showing that the appeal of Herzog's work lies in his flair for condensing a psychological state.

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