July 26, 2018

Fred Herzog: Modern Color at Laurence Miller Gallery

By Jordan G. Teicher
Photograph Magazine July/August 2018

“I call Canada America. I’m talking about North America,” the photographer Fred Herzog said in an interview with photography website American Suburb X in 2013. “I don’t differentiate that much.”

In terms of the aesthetics of street photography, America and Canada don’t differentiate much either – they’ve both got big cars, oversized store signs, and busy pedestrians that have attracted the attention of photographers. As a result, Herzog’s photographs, on view at Laurence Miller Gallery through August 16 could pass for textbook Americana– if it weren’t for the fact that they were made in Vancouver.

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Image Credit:
Fred Herzog
Arcade, 1968