fred herzog

[Lukeschwandt]

what normal lens did fred herzog use?

 

[Ko.Fe.]

He used many cameras over many years. Nikon SLRs with zoom, Hasselblad SLR with primes. Canon film P&S. And so on. In one interview he also mentioned the Leica. Earlier film M. Surprisingly, it was faulty and he stopped using it.

 

[Lukeschwandt]

I'm curious which RF lens he may have used.

 

[charjohncarter]

I never saw this guy's photos before, really great. There is one site that has 162 of his images. They hypnotize you. Thanks for calling my attention to Fred.

 

[Jamie Pillers]

There are several monographs of Fred's work available. I recently added "Fred Herzog: Modern Color" to my library. Great book with really nice reproductions and excellent text about Herzog. Its selling on Amazon for under $40.

 

[Dogman]

"Modern Color" is an outstanding book...one of my favorite recent purchases.

The Online Photographer had a short piece on Fred Herzog last month that included a photo of him with Tom and Tuulikki Abrahamsson. In that photo it appears Herzog was using an Olympus OM-D and either a long prime or zoom. No idea what lenses and cameras he has used over the years.

Here's a link to the TOP article:
http://theonlinephotographer.typepa...grapher/2017/03/fred-herzog-modern-color.html

 

[Contarama]

I was going to say Tuulikki has put up a few photos of him on the flickr in the past month or so.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

"On the morning of the day this photograph was made, I borrowed a 28mm wide-angle lens for my Nikon SLR camera." 1968.
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/16950/1/fred-herzogs-bandaged-man

On his shot Hastings Street at Columbia, 1958

“I had a 35 millimetre camera which had bellows on it, and I could put a view cam on it from a big camera. It gave me that kind of long perspective, a telephoto perspective.”

“I started taking pictures in 1950. I went with a small youth group, every summer we went to the Alps and did hiking. They all had cameras so I had a camera. It was called the Kodak Retina I."

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2013/05/interview-fred-herzog-in-his-own-words-excerpts.html

 

[Colin Corneau]

What I take from all this is that Fred was concerned with the image, not the hardware (beyond making sure it was of reasonable quality and that it worked) ...and that he simply accepted working with whatever he had.

Good lessons, there.

I had the good fortune to be introduced to his work at an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery a decade or so ago - one of my favorite photobook, from that show and a real inspiration to this day.

 

[CK Dexter Haven]

"On the morning of the day this photograph was made, I borrowed a 28mm wide-angle lens for my Nikon SLR camera." 1968.
http://www.dazeddigital.com/photography/article/16950/1/fred-herzogs-bandaged-man

On his shot Hastings Street at Columbia, 1958

One of my favorite of his. He's so good.

Of 'the color guys' of that genre/era, i like Herzog, Eggleston, and Harry Gruyaert.

 

[Ko.Fe.]

His book new re-print was available for pre-orders on Amazon.ca. I payed for one.

One of my favorite of his. He's so good.

Of 'the color guys' of that genre/era, i like Herzog, Eggleston, and Harry Gruyaert.

I watched his presentation with him and about him online. I like these:

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I had the good fortune to be introduced to his work at an exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery a decade or so ago - one of my favorite photobook, from that show and a real inspiration to this day.

Strangely enough, this is how I became familiar with his work. Not so far from it they have clock counting down to the start of Olympic games in Vancouver.

 

[f16sunshine]

Nice Topic
Viewing those color images from that time is very enjoyable.

 

[jky]

FYI:
for anyone in the Vancouver BC area, there is a Fred Herzog exhibit at Equinox Gallery. Good collection and worth a visit.

 

[Richard G]

The recent book 'Modern Colour' is really wonderful. The essays are good. There are so many high quality full page photographs. Incredible value. He has a reverent contemplative eye. Kodachrome was convenient: shoot the roll, post it off and a box of slides returns in the mail.

 

[Archiver]

I only just came across Fred's work last night while reading the Eyes Wide Open Leica book. There were some old Kodachromes by Fred from decades ago, and I was suddenly taken by how interesting they were. Expecting him to be some long-passed luminary, it turns out that not only is he still alive, but he was known to our dearly-missed Tom A.

It's wonderful to find a classic photographer with a body of work that just hits the spot for you. For me, his work is right up there with Erwitt, Eggleston and Mary Ellen Mark. Can't wait to get some of his books!