It was the best film and most reliable development, although he had to wait an age for the results as he sent them to Palo Alto, California, or Rochester, New York.

What was striking to Herzog at this time was that he was beginning to identify a genre that had perhaps not yet found its definition: street photography. Until that point, so few photographers had taken up the idea of simply touring the everyday streets and capturing what they saw.Herzog started taking pictures in Germany in 1950 where, as part of a youth group who every summer went hiking in the Alps, he was given a Kodak Retina I camera. Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of color in the 1950s and 1960s, a time when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. S., and Robert Frank, whose photographs were published in the influential book The Americans and who also died Monday. A while later, Herzog worked as a medical photographer and also became a serious documentary photographer. Herzog’s work has much in common with William Eggleston, who eschewed big scenes in favour of the quotidian.

By taking color rather than black and white photographs, he made his street scenes seem much more modern. Fred Herzog is the most comprehensive publication on the work of this important photographer to date. Fred Herzog is known for his unusual use of colour in the 50s and 60s, when art photography was almost exclusively associated with black and white imagery. This book brings together more than 230 images, many of which have never been reproduced before, and includes essays composed by respected authors David Campany and Hans-Michael Koetzle. Those images, taken through a camera that possessed only a primitive peephole viewfinder, were lost some years later as Herzog travelled to Canada on a rust-bucket ship that apparently nearly sank.And a lot of English gentlemen did serious and beautiful photography… But I didn’t have time for that. Two of Herzog’s big influences were Walker Evans, who documented the effects of the Great Depression in the U.