America 1960 in color

• America 1960 color

Fred Herzog filmed his first color film in 1953, long before William Eggleston and Stephen Shore made color a serious tool of artistic photography.

America 1960 in color

He took up photography relatively late - in 20 years. Then, in 1950 he bought a camera and started filming his native Germany. Two years later he moved to Canada in search of work and settled in Vancouver, where he lives and works to this day.

In 1953, Herzog shot his first scenes in the streets, when he returned from work at the shipyard. Color film Kodachrome ISO10 strongly limited its technically, but it is not feared experiment, up to handheld shooting at night. Photos of the city streets, he then called "a form of journalism."

Up until 2007, his pictures are not enjoyed much success, and the photographer was not exactly known. But that all changed when his work exhibited in the Gallery of Art in Vancouver.

For this exhibition Herzog, who was then in his seventies, restored old photos with the help of scanning and processing, and gave them the lost brightness. After the exhibition, it drew attention, photographs began to print and publish the whole albums. Of course, he was not the first who photographed streets in color, but it definitely was one of those who first began to make large series of urban images.

America 1960 in color

Street Foot Of Maine, 1968.

America 1960 in color

The red tights, 1961.

America 1960 in color

Photo by John Diefenbaker, 13th Prime Minister of Canada in the window, 1962.

America 1960 in color

New Pontiac 1957.

America 1960 in color

A view of the Granville Street Bridge with Grenvillskogo, 1960.

America 1960 in color

The men in the fog, 1958.

America 1960 in color

Studio Arthur Murray, 1960.

America 1960 in color

Mexico City, 1963.

America 1960 in color

Barber Street Foot Of Maine, 1968.

America 1960 in color

The dark-skinned man, 1958.

America 1960 in color

Martin Luther King, 1970.

America 1960 in color

Jackpot 1961.

America 1960 in color

Street in Banff, 1955.

America 1960 in color

Curtains, 1972.

America 1960 in color

Fighting boys, 1969.

America 1960 in color

Dish of the day: hot dog, 1974.

America 1960 in color

View from the window, Quebec, 1969.

America 1960 in color

Georgia, 1968.

America 1960 in color

Victoria, 1967.

America 1960 in color

Cafe "Paris", 1959.