[Leica] Looking for info on Fred Herzog

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 1:37 PM -0800 11/23/07, joe weil wrote:
>I remember a while back there was discussion about Fred Herzog, a
>photographer living in Vancouver BC. I thought were was mention of book of
>his.  Unfortunately, his web site directs you to a gallery and does not
>mention the book at all.
>Is there a book of Fred Herzog's photographs? If so, what is the title?
>Thanks
>Joe Weil
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I've known Fred for over 30 years; an interesting guy. Sonny directed 
you to his book on Amazon. That really is more or less a catalog of 
his exhibition that took place this spring at the Vancouver Art 
Gallery. That was really the first big show that he had; and 
certainly the first time that many of his photos were printed. 
Previously he had had a show or two of small, local exhibitions and 
better yet, slide shows. He had various shows, and he loved showing 
them when people came over to his house.

The pictures are mainly Kodachromes, and a lot are on the original 
ASA 10 stuff so it's very contrasty and hard to print. A local 
Cibachrome printer who was truly excellent made some prints for him, 
but anyone who's tried Cibachrome knows that trying to get a 
reasonable range of gradations from something like the old Kodachrome 
onto Cibachrome was an incredible ordeal, and contrast masking was 
essential, as well as all other tricks. Fred never had a lot of 
prints made.

He was head of the 'Bio-medical communications' department here at 
UBC for many years, and had a dozen Leicas on numerous Reprovits and 
Aristophots humming along for many years. The Aristophot setup I now 
have I got through him. I also got 2 MDa's, one of which probably had 
4 million exposures through it by our calculations, and the other not 
far off.

When he came to Vancouver in the 50's he sunk a lot of the money he 
made into documenting Vancouver on Kodachrome. In the 70's and later 
he had other projects which consumed more of his photographic time, 
but never completely left his early passion.

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