Fred Herzog's "
Old Man Main" is in the "Cartier-Bresson: a question of colour"
exhibition at Somerset House (till 27 January). The entire show is well worth seeing, but Herzog's work strikes a chord with me because these photos were taken in Vancouver at the time I was growing up there, and they show things I didn't notice at the time, as well as bringing back a lot of other memories from that era. Like these houses (image from
here), now replaced by high-rise apartments, hiding the North Shore mountains -
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| Herzog and West End from Burrard Bridge (1957) |
Apart from my nostalgic links with these pictures, they are amazing images.
This article has a selection, including this staircase -
You need to look at
other photos to get an idea of the range of his palette; the colours are unlike those you get with digital photography.
Photo-flaneur Herzog has been using his camera since the 1950s and currently has 85,000 images.
1 comment:
GREAT photos! I agree, digitization wants to brighten colors to within an inch of their natural life.
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