Fred Herzog Modern Color - A Colour Photography Masterclass
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2023
- Robin's Book Club Episode 62: Modern Color by Fred Herzog
There are photographs in this book that I could hang on my walls and look at forever. What a truly exceptional body of work!
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Great master of color.
Beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Great review, I have just ordered a copy
Fred Herzog was truly a master and an inspiration to many.
Because I live just outside Vancouver I know many of the places he shot. Most have changed but some look the same.
I got to meet Fred at an event before his death. He still had a little point and shoot camera with him just incase he saw something interesting.
Maybe you could do a rephotography project inspired by Herzog's photos? :)
@@RobinsBookClub a couple of the local Vancouver magazines have done that. It’s really fun to see. I actually just posted the “main rooms” sign the other day on my Instagram
Brilliant! thanks so much for covering this one..
Looks like the woman a the girl on 4:13 are the same as on 5:22. Good book, great photos, great master. Not an easy book again due to heavy pressure of nostalgia
Good spotting there eagle eye! 🦅 👁️ 🥇
I thought Haas spent most of his time in Canada, but it looks like he didn’t … lots of these photos seem to have been made in the US as well.
I suspect these images would evoke genuine nostalgia for very few people anymore however, since many of the people who were old enough to have experienced these images as real socio-economic and even cultural experiences (who would have been say, older than thirteen or thereabouts when a social awareness begins to form, at the time these images were made) are now dead or past the age of having much social relevance. Those that are in their 80s and are still socially relevant enough (that is … rich enough …) are in all likelihood not spending any time at all mourning the loss what we see in Haas’s imagery here. The people and places in these photos are the very people and places whose exploitation and grim material existence are no doubt the reason anyone who’s now 80 or older and yet is still in a position to be dictating to younger people social and political policy today (that’s right … most of our political leaders, especially those on the the wealthy right … but anyone who’s part of the wealthy geriatric oligarchic capitalist ruling class running our democracies today) are not feeling the least nostalgic for any of this, except maybe in an abstract kind of “wouldn’t it be fun to spend a day as a kid in the old city like the way you can visit DisneyLand?” way.
These photos for anyone else who isn’t over 75 or 80 years old are powerfully strange … some of them are so far from being nostalgic because it’s hard to imagine existing among these people at all; I’m in my 50s and I find I lack the context to imagine myself among some of these people. That’s partly the power of Haas’s work. I think he was trying to evoke a feeling of alienation as a form of social commentary regarding the already rapidly growing economic divide after WWII as North America began to move on to the “next stage” of it’s development. Many small-holding farmers, and towns and small cities based on raw resource extraction, and single industry industrial towns were already getting “left behind”. The new Interstate Highway system made many small towns instantly almost irrelevant (and economically crushed) since they could be completely bypassed by anyone traveling for business or pleasure or to transport goods by truck. Aircraft / Airport infrastructure for interstate trade as well immediately post WWII all those air force bases became available for domestic use, and this was having an impact on port cities and rail hubs too. The great North American infrastructure investment era was what made America the undefeatable power it was in WWII and also fueled the great bourgeois middle class revolution of the 1950s. Some of the ugly effects of who got left behind however are seen in Haas’s terrific photos, as are the images of the impact of the rise of the ideology of the “MadMan” … the new ubiquitous advertising that was essential to the new relentless marketing that was critical to the commercialization of this newly empowered, newly prosperous urban and suburban middle class.
Older towns and cities that were a part of the old way of life and the people that lived in these places that didn’t quickly incorporate the necessary changes to become part of the new economy, or just couldn’t do so … we’re left behind and forgotten to decay. Because that too is the ethos of American capitalism. The effect is clearly somewhat mitigated by the impact of the different form of government in Canada.
I think as working people today we should look at Haas’s work and see great empathy for the experience of the regular working class people shown in his photos and the impact massive economic forces have on their lives. We look around ourselves today and can see the same things occurring. Decisions made by a small group of wealthy ruling class capitalists made lately to enrich themselves and their children, with full knowledge of the impact these decisions will have on a large portion of society are sold to voters as “necessary” or “inevitable”. When the wealth of that small group of leaders grows exponentially over the decades while ever-larger portions of the population stagnate or get “left-behind” it begs the question. How is it that there is so much more wealth and profit getting generated every year, yet apparently there is no way to raise even the minimum wage of the people whose work it is that creates this profit? How long will working people tolerate being told these lies that photos like Haas’s show us where the richest and most powerful and capable nation in the history of the world cannot do better than what we see in Haas’s photos while it produces all this wealth?
Terrific book! Thanks for doing the leaf through.
love love your flip throughs much appreciated
thanks Christine, are there any books/photographers you'd especially like to see?
@@RobinsBookClub ooh Ill have think about that :)
The book is beautiful. But I like it better when it's done in black and white 😉
Thanks for sharing, I love it! Have a good day 👍
Thank you! You too!
thank you so much for sharing
My pleasure :)
HOW have I not found this channel sooner? I am always on the lookout for photographers books! Check out Louis Fabini, Joey L, and Jimmy Nelson
I thought Herzog spent most of his time in Canada, but it looks like he didn’t … lots of these photos seem to have been made in the US as well.
I suspect these images would evoke genuine nostalgia for very few people anymore however, since many of the people who were old enough to have experienced these images as real socio-economic and even cultural experiences (who would have been say, older than thirteen or thereabouts when a social awareness begins to form, at the time these images were made) are now dead or past the age of having much social relevance. Those that are in their 80s and are still socially relevant enough (that is … rich enough …) are in all likelihood not spending any time at all mourning the loss what we see in Herzog’s imagery here. The people and places in these photos are the very people and places whose exploitation and grim material existence are no doubt the reason anyone who’s now 80 or older and yet is still in a position to be dictating to younger people social and political policy today (that’s right … most of our political leaders, especially those on the the wealthy right … but anyone who’s part of the wealthy geriatric oligarchic capitalist ruling class running our democracies today) are not feeling the least nostalgic for any of this, except maybe in an abstract kind of “wouldn’t it be fun to spend a day as a kid in the old city like the way you can visit DisneyLand?” way.
These photos for anyone else who isn’t over 75 or 80 years old are powerfully strange … some of them are so far from being nostalgic because it’s hard to imagine existing among these people at all; I’m in my 50s and I find I lack the context to imagine myself among some of these people. That’s partly the power of Herzog’s work. I think he was trying to evoke a feeling of alienation as a form of social commentary regarding the already rapidly growing economic divide after WWII as North America began to move on to the “next stage” of it’s development. Many small-holding farmers, and towns and small cities based on raw resource extraction, and single industry industrial towns were already getting “left behind”. The new Interstate Highway system made many small towns instantly almost irrelevant (and economically crushed) since they could be completely bypassed by anyone traveling for business or pleasure or to transport goods by truck. Aircraft / Airport infrastructure for interstate trade as well immediately post WWII all those air force bases became available for domestic use, and this was having an impact on port cities and rail hubs too. The great North American infrastructure investment era was what made America the undefeatable power it was in WWII and also fueled the great bourgeois middle class revolution of the 1950s. Some of the ugly effects of who got left behind however are seen in Herzog’s terrific photos, as are the images of the impact of the rise of the ideology of the “MadMan” … the new ubiquitous advertising that was essential to the new relentless marketing that was critical to the commercialization of this newly empowered, newly prosperous urban and suburban middle class.
Older towns and cities that were a part of the old way of life and the people that lived in these places that didn’t quickly incorporate the necessary changes to become part of the new economy, or just couldn’t do so … were left behind and forgotten to decay. Because that too is the ethos of American capitalism. The effect is clearly somewhat mitigated by the impact of the different form of government in Canada, and its different feeling about the acceptance of poverty and decay.
I think as working people today we should look at Herzog’s work and feel great empathy for the experience of the regular working class people shown in his photos and the impact massive economic forces have on their lives. We look around ourselves today and can see the same things occurring. Decisions made by a small group of wealthy ruling class capitalists made largely to enrich themselves and their children, with full knowledge of the impact these decisions will have on a large portion of society are sold to voters as “necessary” or “inevitable”. When the wealth of that small group of leaders grows exponentially over the decades while ever-larger portions of the population stagnate or get “left-behind” it begs the question. How is it that there is so much more wealth and profit getting generated every year, yet apparently there is no way to raise even the minimum wage of the people whose work it is that creates this profit? How long will working people tolerate being told these lies that photos like Herzog’s show us where the richest and most powerful and capable nation in the history of the world cannot do better than what we see in Herzog’s photos while it produces all this wealth?
Terrific book! Thanks for doing the leaf through.
This was a book by Fred Herzog, not Haas.
@@BWOOHAHAHAAA Thanks. Don’t know why “Haas” got introduced into my text. Corrected.
He shot a lot of his work in Vancouver
Thanks for sharing, I love it! Have a good day 👍
Thank you! You too!