Fred
Herzog (born September 21, 1930, Stuttgart, Germany) is
a photographer known primarily for his photos of life
in Vancouver, Canada. He worked professionally as a
medical photographer. He was the associate director of
the UBC Department of Biomedical Communication, and also
taught at Simon Fraser University.
He
grew up in Stuttgart, but was evacuated from the city during the
aerial bombardment of the Second World War. His parents died
during the war (of typhoid and cancer), after which he
dropped out of school and found work as a seaman on ships.
He emigrated to Canada in 1952, living briefly in Toronto
and Montreal before moving to Vancouver in 1953. He had taken casual
photos since childhood, and began to take it seriously after moving
to Canada.
His
work focuses primarily on "ordinary" people, the working
class, and their connections to the city around them. He worked
primarily with slide film (mostly Kodachrome), which
limited his ability to exhibit, and also marginalized him somewhat as
an artist in the 1950s and 60s when most work was in Black and
White. However, he has been increasingly recognized in recent
decades. His work has appeared in numerous books, and various
galleries, including the Vancouver Art Gallery.
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