Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures

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Fred Herzog, "PNE Moscow Circus," c.1963

vintage print.

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Equinox Gallery is pleased to present Fred Herzog: A Life in Pictures, an exhibition of vintage photographs and cameras from the artist's personal archive. Over the course of several decades, Herzog photographed his observations walking the streets of Vancouver as well as almost 40 countries with his Leica. Herzog became celebrated internationally for his pioneering street photography, his understanding of the medium combined with, as he put it, "how you see and how you think" created the right moment to take a picture. 

Since his first major exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 2007, Herzog's photographs have found a place of great significance within the context of post-war street photography. Herzog has exhibited nationally and internationally, including shows at the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), C/O Berlin, Equinox Gallery (Vancouver), Sommerset House (UK), Fotografieforum Frankfurt, Haus der Photographie (Hamburg), WestLicht (Vienna), and Laurence Miller Gallery (New York). In 2010 Herzog received a Honourary Doctorate from Emily Carr University of Art + Design and in 2014 he received the Audain Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts. In 2014, Herzog’s photograph Bogner’s Grocery (1960) was released as a limited-edition stamp as part of Canada Post’s Canadian Photography series. 

Fred Herzog passed away on September 9, 2019 in Vancouver at the age of 88.