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Fred Herzog
Jesus Master Have Mercy, 2001

Archival inkjet print, 2004
Signed, titled and dated on the reverse by the photographer
Image: 41.5 cm x 27.8 cm
Image courtesy the artist and Equinox Gallery, Vancouver

Born in Germany, Fred Herzog came to Vancouver in 1953. Since then, he has produced a remarkable body of photographs of urban life in Vancouver: second-hand shops, vacant lots, neon signage and the crowds of people who have populated the city’s streets over the past fifty years. Herzog draws on documentary traditions in photography through an idiosyncratic sensitivity. In his images, bodily gestures, the detritus of consumer culture and the architecture of the street take on a heightened resonance, as the impact of modernity becomes visible in the everyday life of the city.

Herzog has been active in Vancouver’s art scene for more than forty years, while working as a medical photographer from 1957 to 1990. He has participated in group exhibitions at the National Gallery of Canada, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC Fine Arts Gallery. Since his popular book and major survey exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2007, Herzog has been widely recognized as a significant figure in the history of Vancouver photography and a pioneer in colour photography. He recently exhibited at Lawrence Miller Gallery in New York. Herzog is represented by Equinox Gallery, Vancouver.