Vancouver in Colour: Fred Herzog
Looking around Vancouver, with its fleece and GORE-TEX and endless glass condos, it’s hard to imagine it’s the same city that captivated Fred Herzog to shoot in colour. His photographs, slightly revolutionary at the time when people still believed all art photography should be black and white, seem to capture a bizarro Vancouver, one we’re unlikely ever to see again.
Particularly heartbreaking are his photos of a vibrant, beautiful Chinatown, long since replaced by the dingy pallor of people fighting to hang on.
