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FRED HERZOG
A-1 western Second Hand, Main Street, Vancouver, 1961

Archival pigment inkjet print (2004)
image: 45.5 cm x 20.3 cm

ESTIMATE: $1,500 - 2,000

Local photographer Fred Herzog has produced a remarkable document of urban life in Vancouver. Since arriving here from Germany in 1953, he has methodically photographed the street life, storefronts and buildings of Vancouver, producing a comprehensive archive of over 80,000 images. Drawn to places in transition, Herzog’s images reveal the vitality and elegiac quality of neglected areas. His photographs have been in group exhibitions across Canada, including the National Gallery of Canada (1970), several PHG exhibitions since the 1980s, Vancouver Art Gallery and UBC Fine Arts Gallery. Since his highly 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 as a pioneer in colour photography. He has recently had exhibitions at Lawrence Miller Gallery in New York and the Canadian Cultural Centre in Paris, with an upcoming exhibition at Equinox Gallery in Vancouver who represents his work. Published in a recent issue of Ripe magazine, this exquisite print is typical of Herzog’s eye for the prosaic. Shot on Kodachrome, a colour slide film that produces uniquely rich colours, this image speaks of the poetics of the vernacular.