Fred Herzog - Main Barber, Vancouver, Canada, 1968

The interior of a barber shop in the sixties. A magnificent scene in detail with a view of the street through the storefront window. Fred Herzog is another major name in color street photography. He spent a long time traversing the American continent, like William Eggleston or Lee Friedlander. He began his career in Canada in Vancouver where he would reside, and would finish his wanderings further south, across North America, then to Mexico.

Prepress print on RC photo paper, fine grain. Medium resolution, archive digital print. Later print. Labels and annotations on the reverse. Format: 19.8 x 29.4 cm, with margins. Presented on a 30 x 24 cm passe-partout card. In very good overall condition.

Herzog, born in 1930 and raised in Stuttgart, was evacuated from the city during the aerial bombing of World War II. His parents died during the war. He left school early to become a sailor. He decided to emigrated to Canada in 1952. He would live briefly in Toronto and Montreal before moving to Vancouver in 1953.

An amateur photographer in his youth, he took this passion to heart upon arriving in Canada. His work focuses mainly on the working class, and their connections to the city around them. He works mainly with Kodachrome film, which had the initial effect of marginalizing him as most recognized works were in black and white. In this sense his career resembles that of his peers, Shore, Haas and Eggleston, and all would contribute to the rise and recognition of color photography.