Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures, an exhibition of vintage photographs and cameras from the artist’s personal archive. Bringing together early black and white images developed in the artist’s personal darkroom, never before seen images from the artist’s time at St. Paul’s and his pioneering colour street photography, this exhibition celebrates Herzog’s understanding of the medium combined with, as he put it, “how you see and how you think” created the right moment to take a picture.
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation View
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation View
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation View
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation View
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7th, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation View
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7th, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation view
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7th, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Installation View
Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures
March 7th, 2020 - April 11, 2020
Untitled
1958
Vintage print
Frame size: 18" x 16"
Foot of Main St.
1972
Vintage Print
Image size: 8 1/4” x 7 1/2” Frame size: 18" x 16"
River Road Accident
1960
Vintage Print
Image size: 9 1/2” x 6 1/2”
Westend 2
1956
Vintage Print
Image size: 9 1/4” x 6 1/4”
test
Untitled
n.d.
Vintage print
Frame size: 16" x 18"
Granville Bridge
1958
Vintage Print
Image size: 7 1/2” x 9 1/2”
From Granville Bridge
c. 1958
Vintage Print
Image size: 6 1/4" x 9 3/4"
PNE Moscow Circus
c. 1963
Vintage Print
Image size: 7 3/8" x 9 3/4"
Featured Artists
The Estate of Fred Herzog
The Estate of Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog was born in Germany in 1930, and immigrated to Vancouver, BC in 1953. Throughout his career he worked almost exclusively with Kodachrome slide film, and only in the past decade did technology allow him to make archival pigment prints that match the exceptional colour and intensity of the Kodachrome slide. Herzog’s use of colour was unusual in the 1950s and 60s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. In this respect, his photographs can be seen as a pre-figuration of the “New Colour” photographers of the 1970s.
CLICK HERE to see Fred Herzog featured in The New York Times.