By a happy coincidence I discovered the works of the German born Canadian photographer Fred Herzog.
Fred Herzog: Curtains, photography (1972) © Fred Herzog
Herzog’s work focuses primarily on “ordinary” people, i.e. the working class, and their connections to the city around them. Bodily gestures, the detritus of consumer culture and the architecture of the streets, are important elements in his images.
What first caught my eye was especially his very strong, almost mystical, sense of color. A quality which deepens the everyday image into something more – , something strangely transgressing the familiar.
FRED HERZOG: magazine man, PHOTOGRAPHY (1959) © FRED HERZOG
FRED HERZOG: Red Stockings, PHOTOGRAPHY (1961) © FRED HERZOG
FRED HERZOG: CPR Pier & Marine Building, PHOTOGRAPHY (1953) © FRED HERZOG
You can find many more pictures by Herzog at the pages of the Equinox Gallery
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Cool pictuires. There is as much a skill to photography as there is to any art – and these reveal the point rather well. Thanks for the heads-up!
He is one of my favourites: I love “Man with Bandage” — what an eye he has for the bizarrely banal: http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=204413
Hi. “Red Stockings’ is amazing! Jane