I only recently discovered that I actually held Fred Herzog's old biomedical photography job for the past 4 years. I had no idea who he was despite being born and raised in Vancouver. This revelation not only instilled a lot of hope and purpose in my own photography, but also led me to you. I just wanted to thank you for all that you do for the photography community and the field as a whole. I have discovered some new favourites and learned a great deal from your videos. Hats off to you sir!
I watched this when you first released this forever ago. You’ve taught me more about photography and photo art history than anyone else on RUclips. Going back through watching this again and my heart aches seeing some of these old Images. Your content has held up incredibly well in nearly 10yrs. Well done!
Even ten years later, this is a wonderful tribute to Daan. I did not know of Daan except through your channel, but I can see what a wonderful photographer he was. Thank you for opening up the world of photography to us.
I don't stop to be surprised at how little I know of these remarkable artists; Herzog and Leiter have made my stomach feel like a butterfly cage. When I prowl the streets they are in my mind's eye, the butterflies scuttling in a colorful frenzy of delight. . Also, I realize how much art appreciation of the classics informs the frame that you choose. What a beautiful process of self-education photography is. Thank you Ted.
Happy to come across this. I grew up in Vancouver but, of course, had never heard of him until he was "discovered" in the early 2000s. I love Saul Leiter's work and am so pleased to see and hear you put him in the same category. Herzog passed away last year. We are lucky to have had him record the Vancouver of the mid-to-late 20th Century, It is certainly long gone now.
What's great about these photos, and far more so in Hopper's paintings, is the extraordinary ordinariness. It's not easy to capture. For me, that's the magic behind these kinds of artworks: The deep ordinariness.
I was starting to realize about the same about Vivian Maier - they’re good photographers, but what we find amazing about their work is the time-capsule characteristic of their work appeals to us because we are drawn to nostalgia.
Ted, You are the intellectual master of the photographic arts on RUclips. I feel your work is for my artistic soul. In this video, you encourage us to see beyond the moment to another day of interpretation of our images. It’s like you are our religious father shepherding your flock of believers with a promise of a life beyond this one for our artistic vision. Keep the faith and promise for we cannot know in this current state what the meaning of our work will be on the other side of time.
Simply amazing! Thank you for another great episode Ted! Your podcast is the best! And the image shown in the video at 07:31 by Herzog presumably was taken in Malaysia or Singapore given the name of the shop written in Malay language. I know it's trivial, but I find this really amazing, because to think an amazing photographer like Herzog has been here, where I am from and captured some part of the history that is so near to me. I've never knew Fred Herzog before this, and thanks to you, I will continue learning about him. Thanks Ted!
as usual you continue to post the most intelligent videos on photography on RUclips...I had seen little of his work before but this has certainly piqued my interest...thanks for this...
omg the aesthetic of the color tones in his pic are eyegasmic!!! what in the world! these kind of color tone is why i became a photographer but these days its almost impossible to make these sort of colour in images
the lighting has always been very pleasing in all your videos, now there's this slight muteness in the color that i find very pleasing. Props! great videos as always!
He has a gallery show right now in Vancouver and after purchasing his book, in comes Fred, so I start looking for a pen as I'm ripping off the plastic covering off the book and got him to sign it... totally thrilled.
Immogen Cunningham photo-bombing, again. I immediately thought of Nighthawk with the photo at 5:15 - beautiful composition and colors. Thanks for showing us this photographer.
Thank you for sharing this. I saw an exhibit of Herzog's photography a couple of summers back. Beautiful images from an artist with a great eye for what was around him
Ted, a polite correction if you don't mind. The photo at 8:00 was taken at 898 Granville Street, the location of Jermaine's, with Fred standing almost directly below the huge Orpheum sign, seen further down Granville at 9:25. And as user Levin pointed out in an earlier comment, the neon Studio sign was placed back on the same building (919 Granville) during summer of 2015, and it looks exactly like the original sign. Perhaps it is the original. The correction is that Jermaine's is not now Starbucks. It is called Camouflage, a military surplus store. Starbucks is on the other corner, still on Granville, but across Smithe Street. This location looks very much as it did when Fred photographed it. The photo at 9:25 was taken at Granville and W. Georgia. looking SW. That area is almost completely changed. It looks almost nothing like it did back when Fred photographed it. Be well, and thanks for your excellent content. You're the best, good sir.
Ted, thank you for introducing me to Fred Herzog. I love his work. I'm going to do some additional research on him! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion!
Immogen Cunningham photobombing, again. I immediately thought of Nighthawk with the photo at 5:15 - beautiful composition and colors. Thanks for showing us this photographer.
I love your channel! i am a photographer and a photography teacher and your channel help me a lot to improve my lessons! thank you very much! a follower from spain.
hello, i appreciate very much what you do. your approach is one of the smartest i've met on Internet, concerning photography. i still search, yet, for a more analytic discourse on the body of work of the extraordinary photographers that you introduce. thank you.
Ted, I'm a Malaysian and I can tell you that the picture at 07:32 is definitely taken in Malaysia or Singapore (before Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965). 'Kedai Gambar" written on the pillar literary translated to photo shop. :)
8 plus years later I am still rewatching this video. Bought and read Saul Leiter's Early Color 3 years back. This morning just got my Fred Herzog's Modern Color arrived at my desk. Had a quick look. Personally, I took pictures mostly out on the street yet was still timid to call myself a Street Photographer. I am more agree and comfortable when you said the social documentary photographer. Even I am sure millions of miles away from calling myself a documentary photographer, at least I think that is what I try (and enjoy) doing now. Anyway love your videos, your channel, be it when you talk about new cameras, your Leica M experience and even I am down with your smartphone's camera review, trust you more on that particular rather than MKBHD (sorry @Marques Brownlee )
Herzog representing Vancouver!!! Love Herzog's work, such an inspiration for me, and it's such a shame that him and Leiter didn't get picked up in a serious way until later.
Nice job Ted! I dig Fred's work and Vancouver as some of my roots are there since the 1940's on the Eastside , Sea Island and then in the late 50's- 60's through out town. Who could forget those days! Just got a Nex 3 lotsa fun- need a 6 though for the viewfinder- happy shooting all! Dont step backwards framing now! :)
Wow, simply amazing. Hopper is my favorite artist of all time and I'm always seeking out inspiration in the same vein. Thank you for this fantastic video as always Ted.
Yep I have to agree with you on Hopper there is just something about his work. Got to see an exhibition of his in London my friends thought I was just crazy
Hi Ted, I really enjoy your vidoes and your work. I've gained so much knowledge and insights into the art of photography. By the way, Kedai Gambar in one of the photos means photo studio in the malay language. It was not a gambling den.
I will have to confess to me these just look like snapshots. Bresson picked key interesting moments (and I see this in one or two of the Herzog photos you showed) but generally, Herzog photos looked like he stood on the corner and just snapped a color picture. I'm not sure that even in this day where color is the thing that I really find these photos interesting to view. They just appear boring. I look at the photo and then move on. Nothing keeps me within the photo. There are many other color photographers of the period that I find more interesting. But that is only my reaction to the photos. I know that others have a different one. Thanks for showcasing these artists. Always nice to see work that one doesn't know.
At 7:37 it is either Malaysian or Indonesian, not a restaurant but a photo studio. Tukang gambar literally translates to "picture maker", hence the wedding photos advertising their photography services
I absolutely love these old artist profiles. I don't really care about tech and gear (though I get that this type of content is quite profitable). Without the art of photography, what is the science (gear/tech)?
It's a truly great photo. The light and shadows are amazing and I love that he has the posture like he's riding the motorcycle in the background. The subtleties of the whole composition in general is just a joy to watch.
Did he use a twin-lens reflex camera? I ask because some of the photos you showed looked like they were taken from about waist level. Thanks, I've been enjoying your series!
I'm not an urban photographer in any way, I don't do either street photography or cityscapes. But that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the work of those that do. I really like how Fred used both the light and weather almost separately although they are always intertwined.
I know! It amazes me how they're unknown here and not even taught in art history class. had one on specifically canadian art and they showed me picture of inuit sculpture. Although I love Inuit sculpture it's kind of redundant at the end. As if everything canadian seems uninteresting to other canadians. Anyway, Just wanted to say thanks for sharing (Sorry for the long message)
I'm not a Photoshop expert (I'm sure there will be better tips from great Photoshop users) but, yeah, you can replicate these colors on Photoshop. One I use is images>adjustments> hue/saturation and then tweek the saturation slider.
The portrait of "the guy working in the sunlight", isn't that Fred Herzog? I thought I read in the footnotes of my photo book that it was a self-portrait.
I would assume most of these were shot on medium format being they were slides. I myself have always wondered why color was not considered artistic. I was taught in the late 70's that to shoot color great you had to learn to shoot black and white better, which when done makes color photos spectacular. It's just something you learn by doing it yourself from start to finish print.
Why would you assume that? Most of his photos were 35mm taken on 36 exposure rolls of Kodachrome. As you must know, back in the 70s we often used slide film in 35mm. Reading the photo magazines of the time, one could have been forgiven if he had not realized there was anything other than black and white and color slide film.
Could be singapore, malaysia or indo. Interesting if he made his way out to sea. Chinese mixed with malay - tukang gambar - take photos signature of these regions.
Dylan Keenan You're thinking of Ektachrome. Kodachrome is dead and can't be revived as the chemicals to make and develop it are no longer produced for environmental reasons.
It's never coming back as stated above, Ektachrome will return somewhere next year. I'm quite satisfied with Gold, it has really nice tones and sharpness if you know how to balance colours in post.
You probably won't be able to even get near it because digital sensors process light differently and editing software isn't so good in emulating film either. Kodachrome was one of a kind.
I agree with what is said here. I enjoy looking at old photos in colour because it gives a feel for how things actually were rather than the monochrome version we often imagine. But when I take street photos myself, I tend towards black and white. Maybe to make the photo less placeable in time. Or maybe because it’s “cool”. It’s hard to say but I can’t enjoy my own street photography in colour. Too much clutter with colour. Black and white is more about framing, tonality and texture and colour is a distraction.
Ha thanks yes. I get what you are saying, but technically the term "Americana" is specifically referring to nostalgia and collectibles from the US or the study of the US. So Herzog's photos of Canada being called Americana seems strange, but I get that also. I genuinely wonder if there is a Canadian term for that nostalgic feeling like when they look at pictures of the 1950s or old toys or something.
Oh, I got it now, thanks for explain, is always good to learn something new, i'm from South America and I live In Canada now but I still learning those stuff from North America culture, it make sense to me now, but to be honest, I have no Idea how they call it here in Canada tho :)
Our "x photography isn't real photography" is probably smartphone photography. 70 years into the future, they'll wonder why we didn't take smartphones as seriously. Imagine people going out of their way to buy iPhone 12s (like people do with film cameras)
No, not Hopper-derived, not Rockwell-influenced. Specific location, composition and the era the determining factor. All the rest is retrospective art critiquing. If you know the Balmoral Hotel on Hastings, or the Astor Hotel on Granville, you will be able to read far more into the dynamics of each, without any US-centric overlay. The problem with a term like 'Americana' is that it colonizes.
+Lary Bremner what is your RUclips channel where you teach and talk about all your knowledge about photography in Vancouver ? oh! wait you don't have one?? .....
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I only recently discovered that I actually held Fred Herzog's old biomedical photography job for the past 4 years. I had no idea who he was despite being born and raised in Vancouver. This revelation not only instilled a lot of hope and purpose in my own photography, but also led me to you. I just wanted to thank you for all that you do for the photography community and the field as a whole. I have discovered some new favourites and learned a great deal from your videos. Hats off to you sir!
I watched this when you first released this forever ago. You’ve taught me more about photography and photo art history than anyone else on RUclips. Going back through watching this again and my heart aches seeing some of these old
Images. Your content has held up incredibly well in nearly 10yrs. Well done!
Even ten years later, this is a wonderful tribute to Daan. I did not know of Daan except through your channel, but I can see what a wonderful photographer he was. Thank you for opening up the world of photography to us.
I don't stop to be surprised at how little I know of these remarkable artists; Herzog and Leiter have made my stomach feel like a butterfly cage. When I prowl the streets they are in my mind's eye, the butterflies scuttling in a colorful frenzy of delight. . Also, I realize how much art appreciation of the classics informs the frame that you choose. What a beautiful process of self-education photography is. Thank you Ted.
Very interesting view :)
Happy to come across this. I grew up in Vancouver but, of course, had never heard of him until he was "discovered" in the early 2000s. I love Saul Leiter's work and am so pleased to see and hear you put him in the same category. Herzog passed away last year. We are lucky to have had him record the Vancouver of the mid-to-late 20th Century, It is certainly long gone now.
Fantastic photography by Fred Herzog and a wonderful presentation Ted.
What's great about these photos, and far more so in Hopper's paintings, is the extraordinary ordinariness. It's not easy to capture. For me, that's the magic behind these kinds of artworks: The deep ordinariness.
I was starting to realize about the same about Vivian Maier - they’re good photographers, but what we find amazing about their work is the time-capsule characteristic of their work appeals to us because we are drawn to nostalgia.
Ted,
You are the intellectual master of the photographic arts on RUclips. I feel your work is for my artistic soul. In this video, you encourage us to see beyond the moment to another day of interpretation of our images. It’s like you are our religious father shepherding your flock of believers with a promise of a life beyond this one for our artistic vision. Keep the faith and promise for we cannot know in this current state what the meaning of our work will be on the other side of time.
Thanks for another informative episode, Ted. Your videos are the ones I look forward to most every week.
Simply amazing! Thank you for another great episode Ted! Your podcast is the best! And the image shown in the video at 07:31 by Herzog presumably was taken in Malaysia or Singapore given the name of the shop written in Malay language. I know it's trivial, but I find this really amazing, because to think an amazing photographer like Herzog has been here, where I am from and captured some part of the history that is so near to me. I've never knew Fred Herzog before this, and thanks to you, I will continue learning about him. Thanks Ted!
Had the pleasure of seeing Fred Herzog's show at MOCCA in Toronto last year. His photo "Jackpot" is my favourite.
as usual you continue to post the most intelligent videos on photography on RUclips...I had seen little of his work before but this has certainly piqued my interest...thanks for this...
omg the aesthetic of the color tones in his pic are eyegasmic!!! what in the world! these kind of color tone is why i became a photographer but these days its almost impossible to make these sort of colour in images
the lighting has always been very pleasing in all your videos, now there's this slight muteness in the color that i find very pleasing. Props! great videos as always!
the "Studio" neon sign is still there... just photographed a few months ago :)
I immediately thought of Nighthawk with the photo at 5:15 - beautiful composition and colors. Thanks for showing us this photographer.
Another wonderful episode Ted. Keep these episodes on photographers coming!
Thanks. :)
Some photographs only grow into their significance after many years. Fred Herzog's stuff is wonderful.
He has a gallery show right now in Vancouver and after purchasing his book, in comes Fred, so I start looking for a pen as I'm ripping off the plastic covering off the book and got him to sign it... totally thrilled.
Immogen Cunningham photo-bombing, again. I immediately thought of Nighthawk with the photo at 5:15 - beautiful composition and colors. Thanks for showing us this photographer.
Thank you for sharing this. I saw an exhibit of Herzog's photography a couple of summers back. Beautiful images from an artist with a great eye for what was around him
Ted, a polite correction if you don't mind. The photo at 8:00 was taken at 898 Granville Street, the location of Jermaine's, with Fred standing almost directly below the huge Orpheum sign, seen further down Granville at 9:25. And as user Levin pointed out in an earlier comment, the neon Studio sign was placed back on the same building (919 Granville) during summer of 2015, and it looks exactly like the original sign. Perhaps it is the original. The correction is that Jermaine's is not now Starbucks. It is called Camouflage, a military surplus store. Starbucks is on the other corner, still on Granville, but across Smithe Street. This location looks very much as it did when Fred photographed it.
The photo at 9:25 was taken at Granville and W. Georgia. looking SW. That area is almost completely changed. It looks almost nothing like it did back when Fred photographed it.
Be well, and thanks for your excellent content. You're the best, good sir.
Once again many thanks Ted. I really enjoy these features on past masters.
Ted, thank you for introducing me to Fred Herzog. I love his work. I'm going to do some additional research on him! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and passion!
I love the work of Herzog. Thanks for sharing
Immogen Cunningham photobombing, again. I immediately thought of Nighthawk with the photo at 5:15 - beautiful composition and colors. Thanks for showing us this photographer.
I love your channel! i am a photographer and a photography teacher and your channel help me a lot to improve my lessons! thank you very much! a follower from spain.
Truly incredible photography, so rich and vivid, amazing work!
hello, i appreciate very much what you do. your approach is one of the smartest i've met on Internet, concerning photography. i still search, yet, for a more analytic discourse on the body of work of the extraordinary photographers that you introduce. thank you.
I'm learning a ton from these videos. Super inspiring too. Thank you for making these!
Hi Ted thank you for placing this informative content on the internet. I found it quite valuable. Thanks
Fantastic video, thank you! You'll be happy to hear that the giant Studio neon has since returned to Granville St
Just amazing images. He certainly had a feel for composition and color. Kodachrome was amazing, I dearly miss it. Great episode, thanks Ted.
Great piece and intelligent analysis of Fred!
Thanks!
Ted, I'm a Malaysian and I can tell you that the picture at 07:32 is definitely taken in Malaysia or Singapore (before Singapore separated from Malaysia in 1965). 'Kedai Gambar" written on the pillar literary translated to photo shop. :)
8 plus years later I am still rewatching this video. Bought and read Saul Leiter's Early Color 3 years back. This morning just got my Fred Herzog's Modern Color arrived at my desk. Had a quick look. Personally, I took pictures mostly out on the street yet was still timid to call myself a Street Photographer. I am more agree and comfortable when you said the social documentary photographer. Even I am sure millions of miles away from calling myself a documentary photographer, at least I think that is what I try (and enjoy) doing now. Anyway love your videos, your channel, be it when you talk about new cameras, your Leica M experience and even I am down with your smartphone's camera review, trust you more on that particular rather than MKBHD (sorry @Marques Brownlee )
What’s also great about those Herzog photos is that it really captures the feel of the dreary grey rainy pacific nw
Herzog representing Vancouver!!!
Love Herzog's work, such an inspiration for me, and it's such a shame that him and Leiter didn't get picked up in a serious way until later.
Nice job Ted! I dig Fred's work and Vancouver as some of my roots are there since the 1940's on the Eastside , Sea Island and then in the late 50's- 60's through out town. Who could forget those days! Just got a Nex 3 lotsa fun- need a 6 though for the viewfinder- happy shooting all! Dont step backwards framing now! :)
Wow, simply amazing. Hopper is my favorite artist of all time and I'm always seeking out inspiration in the same vein. Thank you for this fantastic video as always Ted.
Yep I have to agree with you on Hopper there is just something about his work. Got to see an exhibition of his in London my friends thought I was just crazy
Can you tell me some of the specific camera models and specific lens brand specs he used ? Also whats the closest film to Koda chrome these days ?
Huge fan...glad to see this...
This is such a great Video Ted, really inspiring. Thanks a lot!
Hi Ted, I really enjoy your vidoes and your work. I've gained so much knowledge and insights into the art of photography.
By the way, Kedai Gambar in one of the photos means photo studio in the malay language. It was not a gambling den.
I'm from Vancouver, these are always neat to see
Love it. Inspired. Learned. Thanks a lot :-)
Excellent!!...very interesting.
I will have to confess to me these just look like snapshots. Bresson picked key interesting moments (and I see this in one or two of the Herzog photos you showed) but generally, Herzog photos looked like he stood on the corner and just snapped a color picture. I'm not sure that even in this day where color is the thing that I really find these photos interesting to view. They just appear boring. I look at the photo and then move on. Nothing keeps me within the photo. There are many other color photographers of the period that I find more interesting. But that is only my reaction to the photos. I know that others have a different one. Thanks for showcasing these artists. Always nice to see work that one doesn't know.
Very inspiring
At 7:37 it is either Malaysian or Indonesian, not a restaurant but a photo studio. Tukang gambar literally translates to "picture maker", hence the wedding photos advertising their photography services
Good stuff! Certainly learned something. Thank you.
Yep I lived in Vancouver during my school days and many local media stations (like Knowledge Network) always pay tribute to him.
Great stuff!
7:47 its a photography studio/photo printing shop base on the malay and chinese text on the pillar
i have this picture on my desktop and never knew who took it thanks
RIP Fred Herzog
I absolutely love these old artist profiles. I don't really care about tech and gear (though I get that this type of content is quite profitable). Without the art of photography, what is the science (gear/tech)?
Hi Ted, I wonder if you planned to expand the artist series in any way? It's just great and I think it's also quite unique on RUclips.
The Studio sign is still there on Granville Street, it is a lounge and night club now.
I believe the profile image of "the guy" sitting at the table is actually a self-portrait.
It's a truly great photo. The light and shadows are amazing and I love that he has the posture like he's riding the motorcycle in the background. The subtleties of the whole composition in general is just a joy to watch.
Thank u so much! What format was most of his work?
Did he use a twin-lens reflex camera? I ask because some of the photos you showed looked like they were taken from about waist level. Thanks, I've been enjoying your series!
Very nice stuff. Based on photography now, some of it is barely recognizable as photography. I love it.
great stuff
I'm not an urban photographer in any way, I don't do either street photography or cityscapes. But that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the work of those that do. I really like how Fred used both the light and weather almost separately although they are always intertwined.
Thank for speaking about a canadian photographer.
There are more ;-)
I know! It amazes me how they're unknown here and not even taught in art history class. had one on specifically canadian art and they showed me picture of inuit sculpture. Although I love Inuit sculpture it's kind of redundant at the end. As if everything canadian seems uninteresting to other canadians. Anyway, Just wanted to say thanks for sharing (Sorry for the long message)
Would love to see a piece on Fred Lyon. There's practically nothing about him on RUclips. Surprising
I don't claim to match hertzog's exposure and framing but i can get the look....with a 60 year old vintage nikkor 125mm lens...
Any updates in 2022?
Wow!
Who was the other painter he kept mentioning besides Edward Hopper? I can't catch the name..
The gentleman at 5:55 is Fred Herzog himself 😉
is there a way to replicate those colors in photoshop?
I'm not a Photoshop expert (I'm sure there will be better tips from great Photoshop users) but, yeah, you can replicate these colors on Photoshop. One I use is images>adjustments> hue/saturation and then tweek the saturation slider.
The portrait of "the guy working in the sunlight", isn't that Fred Herzog? I thought I read in the footnotes of my photo book that it was a self-portrait.
+Rafael Fyen Yep, its a self portrait. Strange that the guy missed that.
When you realize the gentleman writing the letter is a self portrait of Fred Herzog.
It is just amazing, I was just blown away, thanks //zilmer-dam
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I would assume most of these were shot on medium format being they were slides.
I myself have always wondered why color was not considered artistic. I was taught in the late 70's that to shoot color great you had to learn to shoot black and white better, which when done makes color photos spectacular. It's just something you learn by doing it yourself from start to finish print.
Why would you assume that? Most of his photos were 35mm taken on 36 exposure rolls of Kodachrome. As you must know, back in the 70s we often used slide film in 35mm. Reading the photo magazines of the time, one could have been forgiven if he had not realized there was anything other than black and white and color slide film.
what camera did he used?
He used Kodak ,Nikon ,Canan Olympus, and Leica
did he shot mostly on 35mm?
Yes
The portrait of the guy writing a letter is a self portrait of a young Fred Herzog.
The put the Studio sign back up.
actually it is not a gambling hall. it is a photography studio. the man sitting in front is a letter writer and a calligrapher.
Yes. And those facts make the photo even more interesting!
Could be singapore, malaysia or indo. Interesting if he made his way out to sea. Chinese mixed with malay - tukang gambar - take photos signature of these regions.
"Studio" sign is still there.
Great images. It's such a shame that Kodachrome is gone now as the look is fantastic.
Mark W it's being reproduced this year.
Dylan Keenan You're thinking of Ektachrome. Kodachrome is dead and can't be revived as the chemicals to make and develop it are no longer produced for environmental reasons.
It's never coming back as stated above, Ektachrome will return somewhere next year. I'm quite satisfied with Gold, it has really nice tones and sharpness if you know how to balance colours in post.
I'm desperately trying to figure out how to imitate the look in modern post processing software.
You probably won't be able to even get near it because digital sensors process light differently and editing software isn't so good in emulating film either. Kodachrome was one of a kind.
Nice glasses (no sarcasm intended)
is it possible to shoot on kodachrome still?
I agree with what is said here. I enjoy looking at old photos in colour because it gives a feel for how things actually were rather than the monochrome version we often imagine. But when I take street photos myself, I tend towards black and white. Maybe to make the photo less placeable in time. Or maybe because it’s “cool”. It’s hard to say but I can’t enjoy my own street photography in colour. Too much clutter with colour. Black and white is more about framing, tonality and texture and colour is a distraction.
Hi - I think it's an Indonesian restaurant, for what that's worth, they frequently try to bring in Chinese customers as well.
Fred Herzog was in Malaysia? NO WAY!
Hopper and Rockwell were Herzogesque.
What do you call Americana in Canada?
Joshua Boldt Canadana?
Joshua Boldt Americana is Americana just like we call around the whole continent of America :)
Ha thanks yes. I get what you are saying, but technically the term "Americana" is specifically referring to nostalgia and collectibles from the US or the study of the US. So Herzog's photos of Canada being called Americana seems strange, but I get that also. I genuinely wonder if there is a Canadian term for that nostalgic feeling like when they look at pictures of the 1950s or old toys or something.
Oh, I got it now, thanks for explain, is always good to learn something new, i'm from South America and I live In Canada now but I still learning those stuff from North America culture, it make sense to me now, but to be honest, I have no Idea how they call it here in Canada tho :)
Sorry, I mean at 7' 32".
Our "x photography isn't real photography" is probably smartphone photography. 70 years into the future, they'll wonder why we didn't take smartphones as seriously. Imagine people going out of their way to buy iPhone 12s (like people do with film cameras)
kedai gambar = photo shop
Era gone by ..No children,,,note children and lack of children now...
maybe next time we could see your own work?
No, not Hopper-derived, not Rockwell-influenced. Specific location, composition and the era the determining factor. All the rest is retrospective art critiquing. If you know the Balmoral Hotel on Hastings, or the Astor Hotel on Granville, you will be able to read far more into the dynamics of each, without any US-centric overlay. The problem with a term like 'Americana' is that it colonizes.
Lary Bremner you're obviously from Vancouver. Sorry I upset you with this.
Lary Bremner Come on then smarty pants enlighten us considering you claim to know so much.
+Lary Bremner what is your RUclips channel where you teach and talk about all your knowledge about photography in Vancouver ? oh! wait you don't have one?? .....
someone is a lil bit slaty :/
colorist? no. worked in colour. sure.