A year after moving to Canada from his native Germany, Fred Herzog (born 1930) began taking photographs of street life in Vancouver. He chose Kodachrome “to show the world the way it is” – “to make unposed photographs in color that have historical value.”
“New, clean, safe and honest neighborhoods do not give rise to interesting pictures,” he said. “The thing that street photographers hope to discover has to do with the disorderly vitality of the street; the street people on the corners and plazas, in billiard parlours, pubs and stores, where shoppers, voyeurs and loiterers feel at home.”
Main, 1968
Elysium Cleaners, 1958
Red Stockings, 1961
Self portrait, 1959
CPR Pier & Marine Building, 1953
1967 – Vancouver
Liquid Foods, 1968
1950s
Boat scrapers, 1964
Pender, 1958
Airshow , 1968
KFC , 1968
New Pontiac, 1957
Westend from Burrard Bridge, 1957
Hastings & Seymour, 1961
New World Confectionery, 1965
Arthur Murray, 1960
1962
Greasy Spoon – 1958
New Westminster – 1973
Alexander Street 1959
Granville Street 1960
Powell Street – 1093
Two Boys 1960
Granville Street from Granville Bridge 1966
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1959
Indian Family, North Vancouver 1959
1961
North Vancouver 1960
1958
Herzog foot of Main, 1968
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1961
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Boys Wrestling, 1969
Man with Bandage, 1968
Via: American Suburb, Another Mag
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