Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art – “
Vancouver” by
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1952 and began documenting the Vancouver cityscape a year later. Herzog was known to favour the working class neighbourhoods and downtown core. He produced a large body of work, which depicted Vancouver during the postwar era. During the spring of 2010 on a visit to Vancouver, I had the chance to view many of Herzog’s images at the
Vancouver Art Gallery. He was so talented at capturing the feeling and heartbeat of Vancouver during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The bright and saturated colours, only obtainable from slide film, created a vibrant feeling of activity within the images.
The room displaying Herzog’s work at MOCCA was dimly light which highlighted the beautifully framed images printed on glossy paper. The room was full of people wandering and sitting while taking in the sites of Vancouver. Herzog used the natural surroundings to emphasize his subjects meticulously. His work sometimes seems like a painting, reminiscent of
Norman Rockwell. I am instantly drawn to any photographic works from the 1950-60’s in a documentary/street style, so I may have a slight bias towards the works of Herzog. The more I view his images, the more I wonder whether he had an influence on Canadian photographer
Jeff Wall.
Organized by the
National Gallery of Canada and the
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Andrea Kunard and Bonnie Rubenstein
Exhibition curators.
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