Fred Herzog: Modern Color

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Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the 50s and 60s, when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. For over fifty years, the Canadian photographer exclusively used Kodachrome slide film, and only in the last decade have advances in technology enabled the production of archival pigment prints that faithfully match the remarkable color and vibrancy of the Kodachrome slides. That which we find, the work and the use of the people out there, it’s natural, that’s what ordinary people do, that interests me. The young German immigrant was fascinated by all aspects of Canadian life and set out to document it with his camera.

Fred Herzog is the most comprehensive publication on the work of this important photographer to date. A while later, Herzog worked as a medical photographer and also became a serious documentary photographer. The most comprehensive book yet published on the Canadian color-photography pioneer Fred Herzog is best known for his unusual use of color photography in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black-and-white imagery.The Canadian photographer worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film for over 50 years, and only in the past decade has technology allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional color and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. However, technology only allowed him to make archival pigment prints that match the color and intensity of the Kodachrome slide in the past decade. The real pioneer of the medium seems to change depending on whom you ask (most people, perhaps rightly, would say William Eggleston) but let’s allow some space for another name: Fred Herzog. Fred Herzog is known for his distinctive approach to color photography in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when the art form was almost solely represented by black and white imagery. Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of color in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery.

In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a prototype for the New Color photographers of the 1970s.In this respect, his photographs can be seen as an early indication of the "New Color" photographers of the seventies. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as prefiguring the New Color photographers of the 1970s. Roger Bamber’s 50-year career spanned everything from the Falklands War to Live Aid, but it was in his home city that he found most of his inspiration, as Ailsa McWhinnie discovers.