Fred Herzog (1930 –2019) devoted his artistic life to
walking the streets of Vancouver as well as almost 40 countries with his Leica,
photographing - mostly with colour slide film - his observations of the street
life with all its complexities.
Fred was born Ulrich Herzog in Stuttgart, Germany in 1930
and spent his childhood in Rottweil, Germany. He lost both of his parents
during and directly after the war, and in 1946 Herzog went to work as an
apprentice in his grandparents' hardware store. Disillusioned by the ravages of
war and the situation in Germany, he immigrated to Canada in 1952 and settled
in Vancouver in 1953.
During the next several years. Herzog studied photography
magazines while working aboard ships for the CPR steamship line, and in 1957 he
was hired as a medical photographer at St. Paul's Hospital.
Herzog ultimately became celebrated internationally for his
pioneering street photography, his 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.
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